2015

Refereed Articles in Journals

C.A. Botero, F.J. Weissing, J. Wright & D.R. Rubenstein (2015): Evolutionary tipping points in the capacity to adapt to environmental change. Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA 112:184-189, doi:10.1073/pnas.1408589111 pdf, press release, issue cover

V.S. Brauer, M. Stomp, T. Bouvier, E. Fouilland, C. Leboulanger, V. Confurius-Guns, F.J. Weissing, L.J. Stal & J. Huisman (2015): Competition and facilitation between the marine nitrogen-fixing cyanobacterium Cyanothece and its associated bacterial community. Front. Microbiol. 5:795, doi:10.3389/fmicb.2014.00795 pdf

S. English, I. Pen, N. Shea & T. Uller (2015): The information value of non-genetic inheritance in plants and animals. PLoS ONE 10:e0116996, doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0116996 pdf

S. Moreno-Gamez, A.L. Hill, D.I.S. Rosenbloom, D.A. Petrov, M.A. Nowak & P.S. Pennings (2015): Imperfect drug penetration leads to spatial monotherapy and rapid evolution of multidrug resistance. Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA 112:e2874-e2883, doi:10.1073/pnas.1424184112 pdf

T. Uller, S. English & I. Pen (2015): When is incomplete epigenetic resetting in germ cells favoured by natural selection? Proc. R. Soc. B 282:20150682, doi:10.1098/rspb.2015.0682 pdf

P. van den Berg, L. Molleman, J. Junikka, M. Puurtinen & F.J. Weissing (2015): Human cooperation in groups: variation begets variation. Sci. Rep. 5:16144, doi:10.1038/srep16144 pdf

P. van den Berg, L. Molleman & F.J. Weissing (2015): Focus on the success of others leads to selfish behavior. Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA 112:2912-2917, doi:10.1073/pnas.1417203112 pdf, supplement, press release, persbericht

P. van den Berg & F.J. Weissing (2015): The importance of mechanisms for the evolution of cooperation. Proc. R. Soc. B 282:20151382, doi:10.1098/rspb.2015.1382 pdf

J. van Gestel, H. Vlamakis & R. Kolter (2015): From cell differentiation to cell collectives: Bacillus subtilis uses division of labor to migrate. PLoS Biol. 13:e1002141, doi:10.1371/journal.pbio.1002141 pdf

J. Zhang, C. Zhang & M. Cao (2015): How insurance affects altruistic provision in threshold public good game. Sci. Rep. 5:9098, doi:10.1038/srep09098 pdf

J. Zhang, C. Zhang, M. Cao & F.J. Weissing (2015): Crucial role of strategy updating for coexistence of strategies in interaction networks. Physical Rev. E 91:042101, doi:10.1103/PhysRevE.91.042101 pdf

Books & Book Chapters

P. van den Berg & F.J. Weissing (2015): Evolutionary game theory and personality. In: V. Zeigler-Hill, L.L.M. Welling & T.K. Shackelford (eds) Evolutionary Perspectives on Social Psychology, Springer International Publishing, Switzerland, pp.451-463, doi:10.1007/978-3-319-12697-5_34 pdf

Doctoral Dissertations

V.S. Brauer (2015): Growth and functioning of the microbial plankton community: effects of temperature, nutrients and light. PhD thesis, University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands.

M. de Jager (2015): Eco-evolutionary feedbacks in self-organized ecosystems. PhD thesis, University of Groningen, The Netherlands.

K.M. Jalvingh (2015): Genomics of experimental selection for parasitoid resistance in Drosophila. PhD thesis, University of Groningen, The Netherlands. thesis

T. Janzen (2015): What lies beneath? - How patterns in ecology and evolution inform us about underlying processes. PhD thesis, University of Groningen, The Netherlands.

M.W. Smith-Kleefsman (2015): Dynamics of genetic differentiation in experimental Drosophila metapopulations - Unravelling the interplay of selection and migration. PhD thesis, University of Groningen, The Netherlands. pdf

P. van den Berg (2015): Genetic and cultural change in human social behaviour - A multifaceted exploration. PhD thesis, University of Groningen, The Netherlands. pdf, propositions

E. van Velzen (2015): Specialization, evolution and coexistence in a community context. PhD thesis, University of Groningen, The Netherlands.

J. Zhang (2015): Coexistence of competing Strategies in evolutionary games. PhD thesis, University of Groningen, The Netherlands. pdf