ReviewCurrent opinion in microbiology2022
Ecological drivers of division of labour in Streptomyces.
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- Colony politics to chemical warfare: phenotypic plasticity in Streptomyces.Essays in biochemistry · 2026Review
- Considering internal conflict in the face of natural product biosynthesis and biosynthetic gene cluster evolution.Essays in biochemistry · 2026Review
- Lives in a gram of soil: linking life cycle biology to soil ecology.The ISME journal · 2026Review
- Unravelling the Potential of Fungal Division of Labour in the Laccase ProducerJournal of fungi (Basel, Switzerland) · 2025Article
- The evolution of division of labour: preconditions and evolutionary feedback.Philosophical transactions of the Royal Society of London. Series B, Biological sciences · 2025Review
- Factors that influence the caste ratio in a bacterial division of labour.Philosophical transactions of the Royal Society of London. Series B, Biological sciences · 2025Article
- Fungal and bacterial species richness in biodeteriorated seventeenth century Venetian manuscripts.Scientific reports · 2024Article
- Morphological diversity of actinobacteria isolated from oil palm compost (Elaeis guineensis).Brazilian journal of microbiology : [publication of the Brazilian Society for Microbiology] · 2024Article
- A panoramic view of the genomic landscape of the genusMicrobial genomics · 2023Article
- Cryptic specialized metabolites driveProceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2022Article
- Generation of a high quality library of bioactive filamentous actinomycetes from extreme biomes using a culture-based bioprospecting strategy.Frontiers in microbiology · 2022Article
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Abstract
Division of labour occurs when different individuals, cells or tissues become specialised to perform complementary tasks that benefit the whole organism or social group. Although long studied in multicellular organisms and colonies of social insects, several recent studies have established that division of labour is common in microorganisms. We review recent work on the division of labour in unicellular and multicellular bacteria, with a particular focus on reproductive and metabolic divisions of labour in actinomycetes. Actinomycetes show enormous variation in sporophore morphology and spore production patterns that likely affect the potential for cooperative interactions within colonies. They also display both irreversible genetic and spatiotemporally regulated phenotypic divisions of labour that structure antibiotic production. We highlight outstanding questions in this group of multicellular bacteria and outline factors that can modify the expression of division of labour across microbes.
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