Evolutionary Ecology of Microorganisms

 

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Francisco Dionisio (Prof.)

Luís M. Carvalho (Post-Doc)

Ana M. Reis (Prof.)

Teresa I. Nogueira (Post-Doc)

António Miranda (Ph.D. student)

Sandra Trindade (Ph.D. student)

Sílvia Mendonça (BI)

João Gama (MsC student)

Bernardino Moreira (MsC student)

Ana Marta de Matos (undergrad)

 

Silva, R.F., Mendonça, S.C.M., Carvalho, L.M., Reis, A.M., Gordo, I., Trindade, S., Dionisio, F.

“Pervasive Sign Epistasis between Conjugative Plasmids and Drug-Resistance Chromosomal Mutations.”

PLoS Genetics in press

 

 

Nogueira, T., Rankin, D.J., Touchon, M., Taddei, F., Brown, S.P., Rocha, E.P.C. “Horizontal Gene Transfer of the Secretome Drives the Evolution of Bacterial Cooperation and Virulence”

Current Biology (2009) Vol. 19 (20): 1683-1691

doi:10.1016/j.cub.2009.08.056

 

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

PLoS Genet (2009) 5(7): e1000578. doi:10.1371/journal.pgen.1000578

 

Antunes P.M., Miller, J., Carvalho, L.M., Klironomos, J.N., Newman J.A., “Even after death the endophytic fungus of Schedonorus phoenix reduces the arbuscular mycorrhizas of other plants”

Functional Ecology (2008) 22: 912-918 [PDF]

doi: 10.1111/j.1365-2435.2008.01432.x

 

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  [PDF]


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

Kulathinal, R. J., Sawyer, S. A., Bustamante, C. D., Nurminsky, D. I., Ponce, R., Ranz, J. M. and D. L. Hartl (2004) Selective sweep in the evolution of a new sperm-specific gene in Drosophila, in D. I. Nurminsky (editor), Selective Sweep, Medical Biology Intelligence Unit, Landes Bioscience, Georgetown, Texas. 

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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International:

Ulf Dieckmann, International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis (IIASA),  Laxenburg, Austria

Drew Fudenberg, Harvard University, Cambridge, USA

• Douglas W. Yu, University of East Anglia, Norwich, UK

• Jerry Green, Harvard University, Cambridge, USA

Jérôme Orivel, Université Toulouse 3, France

• Naomi Pierce, Harvard University, Cambridge, USA

Istvan Scheuring, Eötvös University, Budapest, Hungary

• Andy Gardner, Institute of Evolutionary Biology, Edinburgh, UK

• Max Mergeay, Belgian Nuclear Research Centre, Belgium

• Paulo R.A. Campos, Universidade Federal Rural de Pernambuco, Recife, Brazil

National:

Centro de Biologia Ambiental (several institutions)

Consórcio de Epidemiologia Lisboa (several institutions)

Manuela Caniça (IRJ)

Manuela Carolino (UL)

Fábio A.C.C. Chalub (UNL)

Gabriela Gomes (IGC & UL)

Isabel Gordo (IGC)

Sara Magalhães (IGC & UL)

Jorge M.Pacheco (UL)

Ana M. Reis (UL)