Division of Labour and the Evolution of Complexity

Información del proyecto

Division

Identificador del acuerdo de subvención: 834164

DOI

10.3030/834164

Proyecto cerrado

Fecha de la firma de la CE 29 Abril 2019

Fecha de inicio 1 Enero 2020

Fecha de finalización 31 Diciembre 2025

Financiado con arreglo a

• EXCELLENT SCIENCE - European Research Council (ERC)

Coste total

€ 2 491 766,00

Aportación de la UE

€ 2 491 766,00

Coordinado por

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

CORDIS proporciona enlaces a los documentos públicos y las publicaciones de los proyectos de los programas marco HORIZONTE.

Los enlaces a los documentos y las publicaciones de los proyectos del Séptimo Programa Marco, así como los enlaces a algunos tipos de resultados específicos, como conjuntos de datos y «software», se obtienen dinámicamente de OpenAIRE .

Publicaciones

Peer reviewed articles (38)

The consequences of group structure and efficiency benefits for the evolution of division of labour

Autores: Guy A. Cooper; Hadleigh Frost; Ming Liu; Stuart A. West
Publicado en: eLife, Edición 3, 2021, ISSN 2050-084X
Editor: eLife Sciences Publications
DOI: 10.7554/elife.71968

Equilibria and oscillations in cheat–cooperator dynamics

Autores: Ming Liu, Geoff Wild, Stuart A West
Publicado en: Evolution Letters, Edición 7, 2023, Página(s) 339-350, ISSN 2056-3744
Editor: OUP
DOI: 10.1093/evlett/qrad032

The evolution of manipulative cheating

Autores: Ming Liu; Stuart A. West; Geoff Wild
Publicado en: eLife, Edición 1, 2022, ISSN 2050-084X
Editor: eLife Sciences Publications
DOI: 10.7554/elife.80611

Bacterial lifestyle shapes pangenomes

Autores: Anna E. Dewar, Chunhui Hao, Laurence J. Belcher, Melanie Ghoul, Stuart A. West
Publicado en: Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Edición 121, 2024, ISSN 0027-8424
Editor: National Academy of Sciences
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.2320170121

Microbial warfare and the evolution of symbiosis

Autores: Matishalin Patel, Stuart West
Publicado en: Biology Letters, Edición 18, 2022, ISSN 1744-957X
Editor: Royal Society
DOI: 10.1098/rsbl.2022.0447

Microbial Primer: Cooperation in bacteria

Autores: Stuart A. West, Ashleigh S. Griffin
Publicado en: Microbiology, Edición 170, 2024, ISSN 1350-0872
Editor: Society for General Microbiology
DOI: 10.1099/mic.0.001440

Crozier’s paradox and kin recognition: Insights from simplified models

Autores: Thomas W. Scott
Publicado en: Journal of Theoretical Biology, Edición 581, 2025, Página(s) 111735, ISSN 0022-5193
Editor: Academic Press
DOI: 10.1016/j.jtbi.2024.111735

Host–parasite coevolution and the stability of genetic kin recognition

Autores: Thomas W. Scott, Alan Grafen, Stuart A. West
Publicado en: Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Edición 120, 2023, ISSN 0027-8424
Editor: National Academy of Sciences
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.2220761120

Cheating leads to the evolution of multipartite viruses

Autores: Asher Leeks, Penny Grace Young, Paul Eugene Turner, Geoff Wild, Stuart Andrew West
Publicado en: PLOS Biology, Edición 21, 2023, Página(s) e3002092, ISSN 1545-7885
Editor: PLoS
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pbio.3002092

The evolution of mechanisms to produce phenotypic heterogeneity in microorganisms

Autores: Guy Alexander Cooper; Ming Liu; Jorge Peña; Stuart Andrew West
Publicado en: Nature Communications, 2022, ISSN 2041-1723
Editor: Nature Publishing Group
DOI: 10.1038/s41467-021-27902-4

Kin-discriminating partner choice promotes the evolution of helping

Autores: Thomas W Scott, Geoff Wild, Andy Gardner
Publicado en: Evolution, Edición 79, 2025, Página(s) 962-972, ISSN 0014-3820
Editor: Society for the Study of Evolution
DOI: 10.1093/evolut/qpaf032

Genes for cooperation are not more likely to be carried by plasmids

Autores: Anna E. Dewar, Laurence J. Belcher, Thomas W. Scott, Stuart A. West
Publicado en: Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences, Edición 291, 2024, ISSN 0962-8452
Editor: Royal Society of London
DOI: 10.1098/rspb.2023.2549

Larger colony sizes favoured the evolution of more worker castes in ants

Autores: Louis Bell-Roberts, Juliet F. R. Turner, Gijsbert D. A. Werner, Philip A. Downing, Laura Ross, Stuart A. West
Publicado en: Nature Ecology & Evolution, 2024, ISSN 2397-334X
Editor: Springer
DOI: 10.1038/s41559-024-02512-7

Replication of experiments and the canonisation of incorrect conclusions

Autores: Stuart A. West, Maxwell N. Burton-Chellew
Publicado en: Evolution and Human Behavior, Edición 46, 2026, Página(s) 106749, ISSN 1090-5138
Editor: Elsevier BV
DOI: 10.1016/j.evolhumbehav.2025.106749

SOCfinder: a genomic tool for identifying social genes in bacteria

Autores: Laurence J. Belcher, Anna E. Dewar, Chunhui Hao, Zohar Katz, Melanie Ghoul, Stuart A. West
Publicado en: Microbial Genomics, Edición 9, 2023, ISSN 2057-5858
Editor: Microbiology Society
DOI: 10.1099/mgen.0.001171

Relatedness and the evolution of mechanisms to divide labor in microorganisms

Autores: Ming Liu; Stuart A. West; Guy A. Cooper
Publicado en: Ecology and Evolution, Vol 11, Iss 21, Pp 14475-14489 (2021), Edición 1, 2021, ISSN 2045-7758
Editor: John Wiley and Sons Ltd
DOI: 10.1002/ece3.8067

The evolution of cheating in viruses

Autores: Asher Leeks; Stuart A. West; Melanie Ghoul
Publicado en: Nature Communications, 2021, ISSN 2041-1723
Editor: Nature Publishing Group
DOI: 10.1038/s41467-021-27293-6

Symbioses shape feeding niches and diversification across insects

Autores: Charlie K. Cornwallis, Anouk van ’t Padje, Jacintha Ellers, Malin Klein, Raphaella Jackson, E. Toby Kiers, Stuart A. West, Lee M. Henry
Publicado en: Nature Ecology & Evolution, Edición 7, 2023, Página(s) 1022-1044, ISSN 2397-334X
Editor: Springer
DOI: 10.1038/s41559-023-02058-0

Plasmids do not consistently stabilize cooperation across bacteria but may promote broad pathogen host-range

Autores: Anna E. Dewar; Joshua L. Thomas, Thomas W. Scott; Geoff Wild; Ashleigh S. Griffin; Stuart A. West; Melanie Ghoul
Publicado en: Nature Ecology & Evolution, 2021, ISSN 2397-334X
Editor: Springer Nature
DOI: 10.1038/s41559-021-01573-2

Multiple social encounters can eliminate Crozier’s paradox and stabilise genetic kin recognition

Autores: Thomas W Scott; Alan Grafen; Stuart A West
Publicado en: Nature Communications, 2022, ISSN 2041-1723
Editor: Nature Publishing Group
DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.6624184

Altruism and natural selection in a variable environment

Autores: Miguel dos Santos, Philip A. Downing, Ashleigh S. Griffin, Charlie K. Cornwallis, Stuart A. West
Publicado en: Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Edición 121, 2024, ISSN 0027-8424
Editor: National Academy of Sciences
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.2402974121

Cooperative interactions among females can lead to even more extraordinary sex ratios

Autores: Ryosuke Iritani, Stuart A. West, Jun Abe
Publicado en: Evolution Letters, Edición 5, 2023, Página(s) 370-384, ISSN 2056-3744
Editor: OUP
DOI: 10.1002/evl3.217

The Black Box as a Control for Payoff-Based Learning in Economic Games

Autores: Maxwell N. Burton-Chellew, Stuart A. West
Publicado en: Games, Edición 13, 2024, Página(s) 76, ISSN 2073-4336
Editor: Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute (MDPI)
DOI: 10.3390/g13060076

Bacteria encode post-mortem protein catabolism that enables altruistic nutrient recycling

Autores: Savannah E. R. Gibson, Isabella Frost, Stephen J. Hierons, Tessa Moses, Wilson C. K. Poon, Stuart A. West, Martin J. Cann
Publicado en: Nature Communications, Edición 16, 2025, ISSN 2041-1723
Editor: Nature Publishing Group
DOI: 10.1038/s41467-025-56761-6

A phylogenetic approach to comparative genomics

Autores: Anna E. Dewar, Laurence. J. Belcher, Stuart A. West
Publicado en: Nature Reviews Genetics, Edición 26, 2025, Página(s) 395-405, ISSN 1471-0056
Editor: Nature Publishing Group
DOI: 10.1038/s41576-024-00803-0

Is cooperation favored by horizontal gene transfer?

Autores: Thomas W Scott, Stuart A West, Anna E Dewar, Geoff Wild
Publicado en: Evolution Letters, Edición 7, 2023, Página(s) 113-120, ISSN 2056-3744
Editor: OUP
DOI: 10.1093/evlett/qrad003

Environmental Predictability in Phylogenetic Comparative Analysis: How to Measure It and Does It Matter?

Autores: Ming Liu, Louis Bell‐Roberts, Carlos A. Botero, Charlie K. Cornwallis, Stuart A. West
Publicado en: Global Ecology and Biogeography, Edición 34, 2025, ISSN 1466-822X
Editor: Blackwell Publishing Inc.
DOI: 10.1111/geb.70108

Kin selection for cooperation in natural bacterial populations

Autores: Laurence J. Belcher; Anna E. Dewar; Melanie Ghoul; Stuart A. West
Publicado en: Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences USA, 2022, ISSN 0027-8424
Editor: National Academy of Sciences
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.2119070119

Gene transferability and sociality do not correlate with gene connectivity

Autores: Chunhui Hao; Anna E. Dewar; Stuart A. West; Melanie Ghoul
Publicado en: Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences, 2022, ISSN 0962-8452
Editor: Royal Society of London
DOI: 10.1098/rspb.2022.1819

Payoff-based learning best explains the rate of decline in cooperation across 237 public-goods games

Autores: Maxwell N. Burton-Chellew; Stuart A. West
Publicado en: Nature Human Behaviour, 2021, ISSN 2397-3374
Editor: Springer Nature
DOI: 10.1038/s41562-021-01107-7

Signatures of kin selection in a natural population of the bacteria <i>Bacillus subtilis</i>

Autores: Laurence J Belcher, Anna E Dewar, Chunhui Hao, Melanie Ghoul, Stuart A West
Publicado en: Evolution Letters, Edición 7, 2023, Página(s) 315-330, ISSN 2056-3744
Editor: OUP
DOI: 10.1093/evlett/qrad029

The evolution of signalling and monitoring in plant-fungal networks

Autores: Thomas W. Scott, E. Toby Kiers, Stuart A. West
Publicado en: PNAS, 2026, ISSN 0027-8424
Editor: National Academy of Sciences
DOI: 10.1101/2024.08.15.608109

The collapse of cooperation during range expansion of Pseudomonas aeruginosa

Autores: Nan Luo, Jia Lu, Emrah Şimşek, Anita Silver, Yi Yao, Xiaoyi Ouyang, Stuart A. West, Lingchong You
Publicado en: Nature Microbiology, Edición 9, 2024, Página(s) 1220-1230, ISSN 2058-5276
Editor: Springer
DOI: 10.1038/s41564-024-01627-8

Microbial Primer: Cooperation in bacteria.

Autores: West, S; Griffin, AS
Publicado en: Microbiology (Reading, England), Edición 11, 2025, ISSN 0026-2617
Editor: Maik Nauka/Interperiodica Publishing

Ten recent insights for our understanding of cooperation

Autores: Stuart A. West, Guy A. Cooper, Melanie B. Ghoul, Ashleigh S. Griffin
Publicado en: Nature Ecology & Evolution, Edición 5/4, 2021, Página(s) 419-430, ISSN 2397-334X
Editor: Nature
DOI: 10.1038/s41559-020-01384-x

Larger colony sizes favour greater division of labour between queens and workers in ants

Autores: Juliet Turner, Louis Bell-Roberts, James McCulloch, Matilda Brindle, Rosa Bonifacii, Stuart West
Publicado en: Evolution, 2025, ISSN 0014-3820
Editor: Society for the Study of Evolution
DOI: 10.1093/evolut/qpaf250

Using inclusive fitness and eco-evolutionary theory to model cultural evolution

Autores: Ryosuke Iritani, Stuart A. West
Publicado en: Evolution and Human Behavior, Edición 46, 2025, Página(s) 106693, ISSN 1090-5138
Editor: Elsevier BV
DOI: 10.1016/j.evolhumbehav.2025.106693

A comparative approach to the evolution of kissing

Autores: Matilda Brindle, Catherine F. Talbot, Stuart West
Publicado en: Evolution and Human Behavior, Edición 47, 2026, Página(s) 106788, ISSN 1090-5138
Editor: Elsevier BV
DOI: 10.1016/j.evolhumbehav.2025.106788