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Persistence of colicinogenic Escherichia coli in the mouse gastrointestinal tract (with Osnat Gillor and Itamar Giladi), BMC Microbiology (2009)

Background: The ability of a bacterial strain to competitively exclude or displace other strains can...

 

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Bacteriocins, Biology, Ecology, and Evolution, Encyclopedia of Microbiology (2009)

The bacteriocin family is the most abundant and diverse group of bacterial defenses. Key information...

 

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The Evolution of Reduced Microbial Killing (with Jan A.C. Vriezen and Michael Vallliere), Genome Biology and Evolution (2009)

Bacteria engage in a never-ending arms race in which they compete for limited resources and...

 

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Deciphering Evolutionary Mechanisms Between Mutualistic and Pathogenic Symbioses (with M. K. Nishiguchi, A. M. Hirsch, R. Devinney, G. Vedantam, and L. M. Mansky), Vie Milieu Paris (2008)

The continuum between mutualistic and pathogenic symbioses has been an underlying theme for understanding the...

 

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The role of SOS boxes in enteric bacteriocin regulation (with Osnat Gillor and Jan A.C. Vriezen), Microbiology (2008)

Bacteriocins are a large and functionally diverse family of toxins found in all major lineages...

 

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Tests of parallel molecular evolution in a long-term experiment with Escherichia coli (with Robert Woods, Dominique Schneider, Cynthia L. Winkworth, and Richard E. Lenski), Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (2006)

The repeatability of evolutionary change is difficult to quantify because only a single outcome can...