Preprints and submitted publications
92. Laffont C, Wechsler T, Kümmerli R Interactions between Pseudomonas aeruginosa and six opportunistic pathogens cover a broad spectrum from mutualism to antagonism bioRxiv [Link] 91. Gu S, Shao Y, Rehm K, Bigler L, Zhang D, He R, Shao J, Jousset A, Friman V, Wei Z, Kümmerli R, Li Z From Sequence to Molecules: Feature Sequence-Based Genome Mining Uncovers the Hidden Diversity of Bacterial Siderophore Pathways bioRxiv [Link] 90. Schmitz D, Wechsler T, Li H B, Menze B, Kümmerli R A New Protocol for Multispecies Bacterial Infections in Zebrafish and Their Monitoring through Automated Image Analysis bioRxiv [Link] 89. Özkaya Ö, Kramer J, Wechsler T, Kümmerli R A green-fluorescent siderophore protects bacterial communities from UV damage bioRxiv [Link] 88. Schmitz D, Wechsler T, Mignot I, Kümmerli R Predicting bacterial interaction outcomes from monoculture growth and supernatant assays bioRxiv [Link] 87. Leinweber A, Laffont C, Lardi M, Eberl L, Pessi G, Kümmerli R RNAseq reveals that Pseudomonas aeruginosa mounts medium-dependent competitive responses when sensing diffusible cues from Burkholderia cenocepacia bioRxiv [Link] Published articles 2024 86. Mridha S, Wechsler T, Kümmerli R Space and epigenetic inheritance determine inter-individual differences in siderophore gene expression in bacterial colonies Cell Reports [Link] 85. Vollenweider V, Rehm K, Chepkirui C, Pérez-Berlanga M, Polymenidou M, Piel J, Bigler L, Kümmerli R Antimicrobial activity of iron-depriving pyoverdines against human opportunistic pathogens eLife [Link] 84. Wang N, Wang T, Chen Y, Wang M, Lu Q, Wang K, Dou Z, Chi Z, Qiu W, Dai J, Niu L, Cui J, Wei Z, Zhang F, Kümmerli R, Zuo Y Microbiome Convergence Enables Siderophore-Secreting-Rhizobacteria to Improve Iron Nutrition and Yield of Peanut Intercropped with Maize Nature Communications [Link] 2023 83. Niggli S, Schwyter L, Poveda L, Grossmann J, Kümmerli R Rapid and strain-specific resistance evolution of Staphylococcus aureus against inhibitory molecules secreted by Pseudomonas aeruginosa mBio [Link] 82. Schmitz D, Allen R, Kümmerli R Negative interactions and virulence differences drive the dynamics in multispecies bacterial infections Proceedings of the Royal Society B [Link] 81. Rehm K, Vollenweider V, Kümmerli R, Bigler L Pyoverdine Analysis – From High-resolution MS/MS Fragmentation to Ion Mobility Measurements CHIMIA [Link] 80. Kümmerli R, Frank SA Evolutionary explanations for heterogeneous behavior in clonal bacterial populations Trends in Microbiology [Link] 79. Rehm K, Vollenweider V, Kümmerli R, Bigler L Rapid identification of pyoverdines of fluorescent Pseudomonas ssp. by UHPLC-IM-MS BioMetals [Link] 78. Rehm K, Vollenweider V, Gu S, Friman V, Kümmerli R, Wei Z, Bigler L Chryseochelins - structural characterization of novel citrate-based siderophores produced by plant protecting Chryseobacterium spp. Metallomics [Link] 77. Swayambhu M, Kümmerli R, Arora N Microbiome-Based Stain Analyses in Crime Scenes Applied and Environmental Microbiology [Link] 2022 76. Kümmerli R Iron acquisition strategies in pseudomonads: mechanisms, ecology, and evolution BioMetals [Link] 75. Jayakumar P, Thomas S, Brown S, Kümmerli R Collective decision-making in Pseudomonas aeruginosa involves transient segregation of quorum-sensing activities across cells Current Biology [Link] 74. Jayakumar P, Figueiredo A, Kümmerli R Evolution of Quorum Sensing in Pseudomonas aeruginosa Can Occur via Loss of Function and Regulon Modulation mSystems [Link] 73. Mridha S, Kümmerli R Coordination of siderophore gene expression among clonal cells of the bacterium Pseudomonas aeruginosa Communications Biology [Link] 72. Mridha S, Kümmerli R Enforced specialization fosters mutual cheating and not division of labour in the bacterium Pseudomonas aeruginosa Journal of Evolutionary Biology [Link] 71. Rehm K, Vollenweider V, Kümmerli R, Bigler L A comprehensive method to elucidate pyoverdines produced by fluorescent Pseudomonas spp. by UHPLC-HR-MS/MS Analytical and Bioanalytical Chemistry [Link] 70. Figueiredo A, Özkaya Ö, Kümmerli R, Kramer J Siderophores drive invasion dynamics in bacterial communities through their dual role as public good versus public bad Ecology Letters [Link] 2021 69. Kramer J, Kümmerli R Division of Labour: Losing out to improve group fitness eLife [Link] 68. O’Toole GA,...Kümmerli R,...Whiteson K* Model Systems to Study the Chronic, Polymicrobial Infections in Cystic Fibrosis: Current Approaches and Exploring Future Directions. mBio. * 38 authors [Link] 67. Niggli S, Wechsler T, Kümmerli R Single-cell imaging reveals that Staphylococcus aureus is highly competitive against Pseudomonas aeruginosa on surfaces. Frontiers in Cellular and Infection Microbiology [Link] 66. Figueiredo A, Wagner A, Kümmerli R Ecology drives the evolution of diverse social strategies in Pseudomonas aeruginosa. Molecular Ecology [Link] 65. Butaite E, Kramer J, Kümmerli R Local adaptation, geographical distance and phylogenetic relatedness: assessing the drivers of siderophore-mediated social interactions in natural bacterial communities. Journal of Evolutionary Biology [Link] 64. González J, Salvador M, Özkaya Ö, Spick M, Reid K, Costa C, Bailey MJ, Rossa CA, Kümmerli R, Jimenez JI Loss of a pyoverdine secondary receptor in Pseudomonas aeruginosa results in a fitter strain suitable for population invasion. The ISME Journal [Link] 2020 63. Figueiredo A, Kümmerli R Microbial Mutualism: will you still need me, will you still feed me? Current Biology [Link] 62. Rezzoagli C, Archetti M, Mignot I, Baumgartner M, Kümmerli R Combining antibiotics with antivirulence compounds can have synergistic effects and reverse selection for antibiotic resistance in Pseudomonas aeruginosa PLOS Biology [Link] 61. Niggli S, Kümmerli R Strain background, species frequency and environmental conditions are important in determining population dynamics and species co-existence between Pseudomonas aeruginosa and Staphylococcus aureus. Applied and Environmental Microbiology [Link] 60. Sathe S, Kümmerli R Antagonistic interactions subdue inter-species green-beard cooperation in bacteria. Journal of Evolutionary Biology [Link] 59. Gu S, Wei Z, Shao Z, Friman V-P, Cao K, Yang T, Kramer J, Wang X, Li M, Mei X, Xu Y, Shen Q, Kümmerli R, Jousset A Competition for iron drives phytopathogen control by natural rhizosphere microbiomes Nature Microbiology [Link] 58. Rezzoagli C, Granato E, Kümmerli R Harnessing bacterial interactions to manage infections: a review on the opportunistic pathogen Pseudomonas aeruginosa as a case example. Journal of Medical Microbiology [Link] 57. Kramer J, Carrasco MAL, Kümmerli R Positive linkage between bacterial social traits reveals that homogeneous rather than specialized behavioral repertoires prevail in natural Pseudomonas communities. FEMS Microbiology Ecology [Link] 56. Kramer J*, Özkaya Ö*, Kümmerli R Bacterial siderophores in community and host interactions. Nature Reviews Microbiology [Link] (*contributed equally) 2019 55. O'Brien S, Kümmerli R, Paterson S, Winstanley C, Brockhurst M Transposable temperate phages promote the evolution of divergent social strategies in Pseudomonas aeruginosa populations. Proceedings of the Royal Society B [Link] 54. Sathe S, Mathew A, Agnoli K, Eberl L, Kümmerli R Genetic architecture constrains exploitation of siderophore cooperation in the bacterium Burkholderia cenocepacia. Evolution Letters [Link] 53. Rezzoagli C, Granato E, Kümmerli R In vivo microscopy reveals the impact of Pseudomonas aeruginosa social interactions on host colonization. The ISME Journal [Link] [Behind the paper] 52. Wechsler T, Kümmerli R, Dobay A Understanding policing as a mechanism of cheater control in cooperating bacteria. Journal of Evolutionary Biology [Link] 51. Schiessl K, Ross-Gillespie A, Cornforth DM, Weigert M, Bigosch C, Brown SP, Ackermann M, Kümmerli R Individual- versus group-optimality in the production of secreted bacterial compounds. Evolution [Link] 2018 50. Rezzoagli C, Wilson D, Weigert M, Wyder S, Kümmerli R Probing the evolutionary robustness of two repurposed drugs targeting iron uptake in Pseudomonas aeruginosa. Evolution, Medicine, and Public Health [Link] 49. Butaite E, Kramer J, Wyder S, Kümmerli R Environmental determinants of pyoverdine production, exploitation, and competition in natural Pseudomonas communities. Environmental Microbiology [Link] 48. Granato ET, Ziegenhain C, Marvig RL, Kümmerli R Low spatial structure and selection against secreted virulence factors attenuates pathogenicity in Pseudomonas aeruginosa. The ISME Journal [Link] 47. Dragos A, Kiesewalter HT, Martin M, Hsu C-Y, Hartmann R, Wechsler T, Eriksen C, Pedersen SB, Drescher K, Stanley-Wall N, Kümmerli R, Kovacs AT (2018) Division of labor during biofilm matrix production Current Biology [Link] 46. Leinweber A, Weigert M, Kümmerli R (2018) The bacterium Pseudomonas aeruginosa senses and gradually responds to inter-specific competition for iron. Evolution [Link] 2017 45. Granato ET, Kümmerli R (2017) The path to re-evolve cooperation is constrained in Pseudomonas aeruginosa. BMC Evolutionary Biology 17: 214. [Link] 44. Butaite E, Baumgartner M, Wyder S, Kümmerli R (2017) Siderophore cheating and cheating resistance shape competition for iron in soil and freshwater Pseudomonas communities. Nature Communications 8: 414. [Link] 43. Weigert M, Kümmerli R. (2017) The physical boundaries of public goods cooperation between surface-attached bacterial cells. Proceedings of the Royal Society B 284: 20170631. [Link] 42. Leinweber A, Inglis F, Kümmerli R. (2017) Cheating fosters species co-existence in well-mixed bacterial communities. ISME Journal 11: 1179-1188. [Link] 41. Weigert M, Ross-Gillespie A, Leinweber A, Pessi G, Brown SP, Kümmerli R (2017) Manipulating virulence factor availability can have complex consequences for infections. Evolutionary Applications 10: 91–101. [Link] 2016 40. Granato ET, Harrison F, Kümmerli R, Ross-Gillespie A (2016). Do bacterial “virulence factors” always increase virulence? A meta-analysis of pyoverdine production in Pseudomonas aeruginosa as a test case. Frontiers in Microbiology 7:1952. [Link] 39. Vale PF, McNally L, Doeschl-Wilson A, King KC, Popat R, Domingo-Sananes MR, Allen JE, Soares M, Kümmerli R (2016). Beyond killing: can we find new ways to manage infections? Evolution, Medicine, and Public Health 4: 148-157 [Link] 38. Inglis RF, Biernaskie J, Gardner A, Kümmerli R (2015). Presence of a loner strain maintains cooperation and diversity in well-mixed bacterial communities. Proceedings of the Royal Society B 283:20152682 [Link] 2015 37. Kümmerli R (2015). Cheat invasion causes bacterial trait loss in lung infections. PNAS 112: 10577-10578. [Link] 36. Kümmerli R, Santorelli L, Granato E, Dumas Z, Griffin AS, West SA (2015). Co-evolutionary dynamics between public good producers and cheats in the bacterium Pseudomonas aeruginosa. Journal of Evolutionary Biology 28: 2264–2274 [Link] 35. Carcamo-Oyarce G, Lumjiaktase P, Kümmerli R, Eberl L (2015). Quorum sensing triggers the stochastic escape of individual cells from Pseudomonas putida biofilms. Nature Communications 6: 5945 [Link] 34. Ross-Gillespie A, Dumas Z, Kümmerli R (2015). Evolutionary dynamics of interlinked public goods traits: an experimental study of siderophore production in Pseudomonas aeruginosa. Journal of Evolutionary Biology 28: 29-39. [Link] 2014 33. Kümmerli R, Schiessl KT, Waldvogel T, McNeill K, Ackermann M (2014). Habitat structure and the evolution of diffusible siderophores in bacteria. Ecology Letters 17: 1536-1544 [Link] 32. Ross-Gillespie A, Kümmerli R (2014). 'Evolution-proofing' antibacterials. Evolution, Medicine, and Public Health 2:134-135. [Link] 31. Dobay A, Bagheri H C, Messina A, Kümmerli R*, Rankin D J* (2014) Interaction effects of cell diffusion, cell density and public goods properties on the evolution of cooperation in digital microbes. Journal of Evolutionary Biology 27: 1869-1877. (* contributed equally) [Link] 30. Ross-Gillespie A*, Weigert M*, Brown SP, Kümmerli R (2014). Gallium-mediated siderophore quenching as an evolutionarily robust antibacterial treatment. Evolution, Medicine, and Public Health 2: 18-29 (* contributed equally) [Link] 29. Ross-Gillespie A, Kümmerli R (2014). Collective decision-making in microbes. Frontiers in Microbiology 5: 54. [Link] 28. Kümmerli R, Ross-Gillespie A (2014). Explaining sociobiology of pyoverdin producing Pseudomonas - a comment on Zhang and Rainey (2013). Evolution 68: 3337-3343 [Link] 2013 27. Refardt D, Kümmerli R (2013). Defying bacteriophages: contrasting altruistic with individual-based resistance mechanisms in Escherichia coli. Communicative & Integrative Biology 6: e25159 [Link] 26. Dumas Z, Ross-Gillespie A, Kümmerli R (2013). Switching between apparently redundant iron-uptake mechanisms benefits bacteria in changeable environments. Proceedings of the Royal Society B 280: 20131055 [Link] 25. Refardt D, Bergmiller T, Kümmerli R (2013). Altruism can evolve when relatedness is low: evidence from bacteria committing suicide upon phage infection. Proceedings of the Royal Society B 280: 20123035. [Link] 2012 24. Dumas Z, Kümmerli R (2012). Cost of cooperation rules selection for cheats in bacterial metapopulations. Journal of Evolutionary Biology 25:473-484. [Link] 2011 23. Kümmerli R (2011). A test of evolutionary policing theory with data from human societies. PLOS One 6:e24350 [Link] 22. Kümmerli R, Keller L (2011). Between-year variation in population sex ratio increases with the complexity of the breeding system in Hymenoptera. American Naturalist 177:835-846. [Link] 21. Abbot P, … Kümmerli R, … and Zink A* (2011). Inclusive fitness theory and eusociality. Nature 471:E1-E4. * 137 authors. [Link] 2010 20. Kümmerli R, Burton-Chellew MN, Ross-Gillespie A, West SA (2010). Resistance to extreme strategies, rather than prosocial preferences, can explain human cooperation in public goods games. PNAS 107:10125-10130. [Link] 19. Kümmerli R, van den Berg P, Griffin AS, West SA, Gardner A (2010). Repression of competition favours cooperation: experimental evidence from bacteria. Journal of Evolutionary Biology 23:699-706. [Link] 18. Kümmerli R, Brown SP (2010). Molecular and regulatory properties of a public good shape the evolution of cooperation. PNAS 44:18921-18926. [Link] 2009 17. Kümmerli R (2009). Social insects – superorganisms or just superb organisms. Current Biology 19:R105-107. [Link] 16. Kümmerli R, Keller L (2009). Patterns of split sex ratio in ants have multiple evolutionary causes based on different within-colony conflicts. Biology Letters 5:713-716. [Link] 15. Kümmerli R, Gardner A, West SA, Griffin AS (2009). Limited dispersal, budding dispersal and cooperation: an experimental study. Evolution 63:939-949. [Link] 14. Kümmerli R, Jiricny N, Clarke LS, West SA, Griffin AS (2009). Phenotypic plasticity of a cooperative behaviour in bacteria. Journal of Evolutionary Biology 22:581-598. [Link] 13. Kümmerli R, Griffin AS, West SA, Buckling A, Harrison F (2009). Viscous medium promotes cooperation in the pathogenic bacterium Pseudomonas aeruginosa. Proceedings of the Royal Society B 276:3531-3538. [Link] 2008 12. Kümmerli R, Martin RD (2008). Patterns of infant handling and relatedness in Barbary macaques (Macaca sylvanus) on Gibraltar. Primates 49:271–282. [Link] 11. Kümmerli R, Keller L (2008). Reproductive parameters vary with social and ecological factors in the polygynous ant Formica exsecta. Oikos 117:580-590. [Link] 10. Gardner A, Kümmerli R (2008). Social Evolution: This microbe will self destruct. Current Biology 18:R1021-R1023. [Link] 2007 09. Kümmerli R, Colliard C, Fiechter N, Petitpierre B, Russier F, Keller L (2007). Human cooperation in social dilemmas: comparing the snowdrift game with the prisoner’s dilemma. Proceedings of the Royal Society B 274: 2965–2970. [Link] 08. Kümmerli R, Keller L (2007). Reproductive specialization in multiple-queen colonies of the ant Formica exsecta. Behavioural Ecology 18:375-383. [Link] 07. Kümmerli R, Keller L (2007). Extreme reproductive specialization within ant colonies: some queens produce males whereas others produce workers. Animal Behaviour 74:1535-1543. [Link] 06. Kümmerli R, Keller L (2007). Contrasting population genetic structure for workers and queens in the putatively unicolonial ant Formica exsecta. Molecular Ecology 16:4493–4503. [Link] 2006 05. Holzer B*, Kümmerli R*, Keller L, Chapuisat M (2006). Sham nepotism in as a result of intrinsic differences in brood viability in ants. Proceedings of the Royal Society B 273:2049-2052. (*contributed equally) [Link] 2005 04. Kümmerli R, Martin RD (2005). Male and female reproductive success in Macaca sylvanus in Gibraltar: No evidence for rank dependence. International Journal of Primatology 26:1229-1249. [Link] 03. Kümmerli R, Helms KR, Keller L (2005). Experimental manipulation of queen number affects colony sex ratio investment in the highly polygynous ant Formica exsecta. Proceedings of the Royal Society B 272:1789-1794. [Link] 2002 02. Thalmann U, Kümmerli R, Zaramody A (2002). Why Propithecus verreauxi deckeni and P. v. coronatusare valid taxa – quantitative and qualitative arguments. Lemur News 7:11-16. [Link] 2001 01. Kümmerli R, Möhr F, Martin RD (2001). Paternity analysis in a social group of Barbary macaques (Macaca sylvanus) in Gibraltar Folia Primatologica 72:170. |