Preprints and submitted publications

84. 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 bioRxiv [Link]
83. 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]
82. Schmitz D, Allen R, Kümmerli R Negative interactions and virulence differences drive the dynamics in multispecies bacterial infections bioRxiv [Link]

Published articles

2023
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.