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Trindade, S., Sousa, A., Xavier, K., Dionisio, F., Ferreira, M.G. and Isabel Gordo “Positive Epistasis Drives the Acquisition of Multidrug Resistance”

PLoS Genet 5(7): e1000578. doi:10.1371/journal.pgen.1000578

Dionisio, F. "Selfish and spiteful behaviour through parasites and pathogens"
Evolutionary Ecology Research (2007) 9: 1199-1210  [PDF]

Dionisio, F., Gordo, I. "Controlling excludability in the evolution of cooperation"
Evolutionary Ecology Research (2007) 9(2): 365-373 [PDF]


Combadao,J., Campos, P.R.A., Dionisio, F and Gordo, I. "Small-World networks decrease the speed of Muller’s ratchet"
Genetical Research
(2007) 89(1):7-18 [PDF]


Dionisio, F., Gordo, I. "The Tragedy of the Commons, the Public Goods Dilemma, and the meaning of Rivalry and Excludability in Evolutionary Biology".
Evolutionary Ecology Research (2006) 8: 321-332 [PDF]


Campos, P.R.A., Combadao,J., Dionisio, F and Gordo, I. "Muller’s ratchet in random graphs and scale-free networks"
Physical Review E
(2006) 74, 042901 [PDF]


Dionisio, F., Conceição, I.C., Marques A.C.R., Fernandes, L. and Gordo, I. "The evolution of a conjugative plasmid and its ability to increase bacterial fitness"
Biology Letters (2005) 1: 250-252 
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Dionisio, F. "Plasmids survive despite their cost and male-specific-phages due to heterogeneity of bacterial populations".
Evolutionary Ecology Research (2005) 7: 1089-1107 [PDF]

Gordo, I. & Dionisio, F.  "A non-equilibrium model for estimating the parameters of deleterious mutations".
Physical Review E (2005) 71, 031907 [PDF] also published in the Virtual Journal of Biological Physics Research 9(7), 2005


Dionisio, F.,  Matic I, Radman M, Rodrigues O. R., Taddei F "Plasmids spread faster in heterogeneous bacterial populations."
Genetics (2002) 162(4):1525-1532
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Vulic, M., F. Dionisio, F. Taddei, and M. Radman "Molecular keys to speciation: DNA polymorphism and the control of genetic exchange in enterobacteria."
Proc Natl Acad Sci 94: 9763-9767.
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