Weitz Group

Investigating how viruses transform human health and the fate of our planet

Investigating how viruses transform human health and the fate of our planet.      

Publications: Microbial Ecology & Evolution

Title Year Journal
Revisiting the rules of life for viruses of microorganisms 2021 Nature Reviews Microbiology
Fighting microbial pathogens by integrating host ecosystem interactions and evolution 2021 BioEssays
Time-scales modulate optimal lysis-lysogeny decision switches and near-term phage fitness 2021 BioRxiv
Leapfrog dynamics in phage-bacteria coevolution revealed by joint analysis of cross-infection phenotypes and whole genome sequencing 2021 bioRxiv
Topological constraints in early multicellularity favor reproductive division of labor 2020 eLife
Spatial Interactions and Oscillatory Tragedies of the Commons 2019 Physical Review Letters
Viral invasion fitness across a continuum from lysis to latency 2019 Virus Evolution
Functional and Comparative Genomic Analysis of Integrated Prophage-Like Sequences in “Candidatus Liberibacter asiaticus” 2019 mSphere
Heterogeneous viral strategies promote coexistence in virus-microbe systems 2019 Journal of Theoretical Biology
Limitations of correlation-based inference in complex virus-microbe communities 2018 mSystems
The Effect of Strain Level Diversity on Robust Inference of Virus-Induced Mortality of Phytoplankton 2018 Frontiers in Microbiology
Optimal control policies for evolutionary dynamics with environmental feedback 2018 IEEE Conference on Decision and Control
An oscillating tragedy of the commons in replicator dynamics with game-environment feedback 2016 PNAS
Genomic differentiation among wild cyanophages despite widespread horizontal gene transfer 2016 BMC Genomics
A touch of sleep: biophysical model of contact-mediated dormancy of archaea by viruses 2016 Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences
CRISPR-induced distributed immunity in microbial populations 2014 PloS One
Coevolution can reverse predator–prey cycles 2014 PNAS
Suppression of expression between adjacent genes within heterologous modules in yeast 2014 G3: Genes, Genomes, Genetics
Phage–bacteria infection networks 2013 Trends in Microbiology
Critical cell wall hole size for lysis in Gram-positive bacteria 2013 Journal of the Royal Society Interface
A neutral theory of genome evolution and the frequency distribution of genes 2012 BMC Genomics
Repeatability and contingency in the evolution of a key innovation in phage lambda 2012 Science
Dynamics of nutrient uptake strategies: lessons from the tortoise and the hare 2011 Theoretical Ecology
Statistical structure of host–phage interactions 2011 PNAS
Genomic fluidity: an integrative view of gene diversity within microbial populations 2011 BMC Genomics
Analysing threshold effects in the sexual dynamics of cyclically parthenogenetic rotifer populations 2011 Hydrobiologia
Fluctuation domains in adaptive evolution 2010 Theoretical Population Biology
Evolutionary ecology of bacterial viruses 2008 Microbe
Alternative stable states in host–phage dynamics 2008 Theoretical Ecology
The evolution of dispersal in reserve networks 2007 The American Naturalist

The Weitz Group

Investigating how viruses transform human health and the fate of our planet

310 Ferst Dr
School of Biological Sciences
Georgia Institute of Technology
Atlanta, GA 30332, USA

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