ArticleiScience2023
Widespread density dependence of bacterial growth under acid stress.
Article in iScience, 2023. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 6 papers.
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- Predation in microbial communities: gradients of nutritive killing.Nature reviews. Microbiology · 2026Review
- Engineering artificial microbial consortia for efficient lactic acid fermentation from undetoxified hydrolysates: from induced niche succession in a dual Bacillus coagulans consortium to Pseudomonas putida-assisted system reinforcement.Biotechnology for biofuels and bioproducts · 2026Article
- Bottleneck size drives the evolution of cooperative traits in an aggregative multicellular myxobacterium.PLoS biology · 2026Article
- Fatty acid metabolism and the oxidative stress response support bacterial predation.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2025Article
- Ecological histories govern social exploitation by microorganisms.The ISME journal · 2025Article
- Killer prey: Ecology reverses bacterial predation.PLoS biology · 2024Article
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Abstract
Many microbial phenotypes are density-dependent, including group-level phenotypes emerging from cooperation. However, surveys for the presence of a particular form of density dependence across diverse species are rare, as are direct tests for the Allee effect, i.e., positive density dependence of fitness. Here, we test for density-dependent growth under acid stress in five diverse bacterial species and find the Allee effect in all. Yet social protection from acid stress appears to have evolved by multiple mechanisms. In
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