PhD project embedded in Project 1: Genomic Correlates of Microbial Coevolution

Topic of PhD thesis:

Experimental Evolution of a Freshwater Isolate with Inducible Aggregate Formation – Genome Streamlining and Variability of Phenotypic Plasticity
 

Publications:

Butaité E, Baumgartner M, Wyder S, Kümmerli R (2017).

Siderophore cheating and cheating resistance shape competition for iron in soil and freshwater Pseudomonas communities ( https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-017-00509-4 )

Nature Communications, September 2017

Baumgartner M, Roffler S, Wicker T, Pernthaler J (2017).

Letting go: bacterial genome reduction solves the dilemma of adapting to predation mortality in a substrate-restricted environment (http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/ismej.2017.87)

The ISME Journal, June 2017

Baumgartner M, Neu TR, Blom JF, Pernthaler J (2016).

Protistan predation interferes with bacterial long-term adaptation to substrate restriction by selecting for defence morphotypes (https://doi.org/10.1111/jeb.12957)

Journal of Evolutionary Biology, November 2016, Pages 2297–2310