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    The role of the ecological scaffold in the origin and maintenance of whole-group trait altruism in microbial populations

    Kin and multilevel selection provide explanations for the existence of altruism based on traits or processes that enhance the inclusive fitness of an altruist individual. Kin selection is often based on indivi...

    C. T. Jones, L. Meynell, C. Neto, E. Susko, J. P. Bielawski in BMC Ecology and Evolution (2023)

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    Evolution of the connectivity and indispensability of a transferable gene: the simplicity hypothesis

    The number of interactions between a transferable gene or its protein product and genes or gene products native to its microbial host is referred to as connectivity. Such interactions impact the tendency of th...

    C. T. Jones, E. Susko, J. P. Bielawski in BMC Ecology and Evolution (2022)

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    The origin and evolution of geminivirus-related DNA sequences in Nicotiana

    A horizontal transmission of a geminiviral DNA sequence, into the germ line of an ancestral Nicotiana, gave rise to multiple repeats of geminivirus-related DNA, GRD, in the genome. We follow GRD evolution in Nico...

    L Murad, J P Bielawski, R Matyasek, A Kovarík, R A Nichols, A R Leitch in Heredity (2004)