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12 papers
Cooperation in Microbial Populations: Theory and Experimental Model Systems
J. Cremer, A. Melbinger, K. Wienand +3
Cooperative behavior, the costly provision of benefits to others, is common across all domains of life. This review article discusses cooperative behavior in the microbial world, m…
The Impact of Environmental Fluctuations on Evolutionary Fitness Functions
Anna Melbinger, Massimo Vergassola
The concept of fitness as a measure for a species's success in natural selection is central to the theory of evolution. We here investigate how reproduction rates which are not con…
The Emergence of Cooperation from a Single Mutant during Microbial Life-Cycles
Anna Melbinger, Jonas Cremer, Erwin Frey
Cooperative behavior is widespread in nature, even though cooperating individuals always run the risk to be exploited by free-riders. Population structure effectively promotes coop…
Evolutionary Fitness in Variable Environments
Anna Melbinger, Massimo Vergassola
One essential ingredient of evolutionary theory is the concept of fitness as a measure for a species' success in its living conditions. Here, we quantify the effect of environmenta…
Traffic Dynamic Instability
Louis Reese, Anna Melbinger, Erwin Frey
Here we study a driven lattice gas model for microtubule depolymerizing molecular motors, where traffic jams of motors induce stochastic switching between microtubule growth and sh…
Molecular Mechanisms for Microtubule Length Regulation by Kinesin-8 and XMAP215 Proteins
Louis Reese, Anna Melbinger, Erwin Frey
The cytoskeleton is regulated by a plethora of enzymes that influence the stability and dynamics of cytoskeletal filaments. Molecular motors of the kinesin-8 protein family depolym…