The Evolution of Bacterial Warfare

Project Information

MicroWars

Grant agreement ID: 787932

DOI

10.3030/787932

Project closed

EC signature date 18 May 2018

Start date 1 October 2018

End date 30 September 2025

Funded under

• EXCELLENT SCIENCE - European Research Council (ERC)

Total cost

€ 2 750 137,00

EU contribution

€ 2 750 137,00

Coordinated by

THE CHANCELLOR, MASTERS AND SCHOLARS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD
United Kingdom

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Publications

Peer reviewed articles (10)

Bacteria solve the problem of crowding by moving slowly

Author(s): O. J. Meacock, A. Doostmohammadi, K. R. Foster, J. M. Yeomans, W. M. Durham
Published in: Nature Physics, Issue 17/2, 2021, Page(s) 205-210, ISSN 1745-2473
Publisher: Nature Publishing Group
DOI: 10.1038/s41567-020-01070-6

The evolution of tit-for-tat in bacteria via the type VI secretion system.

Author(s): William P. J. Smith; Maj Brodmann; Kevin R. Foster; Laurie E. Comstock; Marek Basler; Yohan Davit; Daniel Unterweger
Published in: Nature Communications, Issue 1, 2020, ISSN 2041-1723
Publisher: Nature Publishing Group
DOI: 10.1038/s41467-020-19017-z

Ecological rules for the assembly of microbiome communities

Author(s): Katharine Z. Coyte, Chitong Rao, Seth Rakoff-Nahoum, Kevin R. Foster
Published in: PLOS Biology, Issue 19/2, 2021, Page(s) e3001116, ISSN 1545-7885
Publisher: PLoS
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pbio.3001116

The Evolution of Mass Cell Suicide in Bacterial Warfare

Author(s): Elisa T. Granato, Kevin R. Foster
Published in: Current Biology, 2020, ISSN 0960-9822
Publisher: Cell Press
DOI: 10.1016/j.cub.2020.05.007

Biofilm Bacteria Use Stress Responses to Detect and Respond to Competitors

Author(s): Bram Lories, Stefanie Roberfroid, Lise Dieltjens, David De Coster, Kevin R. Foster, Hans P. Steenackers
Published in: Current Biology, Issue 30/7, 2020, Page(s) 1231-1244.e4, ISSN 0960-9822
Publisher: Cell Press
DOI: 10.1016/j.cub.2020.01.065

Bacteriophages benefit from generalized transduction

Author(s): Alfred Fillol-Salom, Ahlam Alsaadi, Jorge A. Moura de Sousa, Li Zhong, Kevin R. Foster, Eduardo P. C. Rocha, José R. Penadés, Hanne Ingmer, Jakob Haaber
Published in: PLOS Pathogens, Issue 15/7, 2019, Page(s) e1007888, ISSN 1553-7374
Publisher: PloS
DOI: 10.1371/journal.ppat.1007888

The Evolution and Ecology of Bacterial Warfare

Author(s): Elisa T. Granato, Thomas A. Meiller-Legrand, Kevin R. Foster
Published in: Current Biology, Issue 29/11, 2019, Page(s) R521-R537, ISSN 0960-9822
Publisher: Cell Press
DOI: 10.1016/j.cub.2019.04.024

The evolution of the type VI secretion system as a disintegration weapon

Author(s): William P. J. Smith, Andrea Vettiger, Julius Winter, Till Ryser, Laurie E. Comstock, Marek Basler, Kevin R. Foster
Published in: PLOS Biology, Issue 18/5, 2020, Page(s) e3000720, ISSN 1545-7885
Publisher: PLoS
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pbio.3000720

Inhibiting bacterial cooperation is an evolutionarily robust anti-biofilm strategy

Author(s): Lise Dieltjens, Kenny Appermans, Maries Lissens, Bram Lories, Wook Kim, Erik V. Van der Eycken, Kevin R. Foster, Hans P. Steenackers
Published in: Nature Communications, Issue 11/1, 2020, ISSN 2041-1723
Publisher: Nature Publishing Group
DOI: 10.1038/s41467-019-13660-x

Droplet printing reveals the importance of micron-scale structure for bacterial ecology

Author(s): Ravinash Krishna Kumar, Thomas A. Meiller-Legrand, Alessandro Alcinesio, Diego Gonzalez, Despoina A. I. Mavridou, Oliver J. Meacock, William P. J. Smith, Linna Zhou, Wook Kim, Gökçe Su Pulcu, Hagan Bayley, Kevin R. Foster
Published in: Nature Communications, Issue 12/1, 2021, ISSN 2041-1723
Publisher: Nature Publishing Group
DOI: 10.1038/s41467-021-20996-w