Rolf F. Hoekstra

TL;DR: It is suggested that antibiotic interactions within microbial communities may be very effective in maintaining diversity, based on a spatially explicit game theoretical model with multiply cyclic dominance structures.

TL;DR: It is shown that both cooperation and the associated QS communication system can evolve, spread and remain persistent and this synergism opens up a remarkably rich repertoire of social interactions in which cheating and exploitation are commonplace.

TL;DR: The longevity of adults, either virgin or mated, was not affected by selection for developmental time, indicating that developmental time is not a causal determinant of life span, thus confirming the results of the studies on environmental effects on aging.

TL;DR: It is shown that African fungus-growing termites propagate single variants of their Termitomyces symbiont, despite initiating cultures from genetically variable spores from the habitat, which explains why vertical symbionT transmission in fungus- growing termites is rare and evolutionarily derived.

TL;DR: An experimental study to explore the specific advantages of haploidy or diploidy in the fungus Aspergillus nidulans shows the adaptive significance of mitotic recombination combined with flexibility in the timing of ploidy level transition if sign epistasis is an important determinant of fitness.