S. De Monte

Single-cell phenotypic plasticity modulates social behaviour in Dictyostelium discoideum.

The paper investigates how phenotypic plasticity affects spore bias in Dictyostelium chimeras, showing that growth phase and population composition influence social behavior outcomes.

Evolving social behaviour through selection of single-cell adhesion in Dictyostelium discoideum

This study evolves cell adhesion in Dictyostelium discoideum and finds that both stronger and weaker adhesion can lead to social cooperators, revealing distinct social behaviors based on clonal spore production.

Eco-evolutionary dynamics of nested Darwinian populations and the emergence of community-level heredity

The paper shows how manipulating population structure can impose Darwinian properties on microbial communities, enabling them to reliably reproduce parental phenotypes through developmental correction.

The Crohn s disease-associated Escherichia coli strain LF82 rely on SOS and stringent responses to survive, multiply and tolerate antibiotics within macrophages.

This study investigates how AIEC LF82 survives and multiplies in macrophages, revealing phenotypic switches and antibiotic tolerance mechanisms.

Ribosome provisioning activates a bistable switch coupled to fast exit from stationary phase

The paper shows that pyrimidine limitation triggers ribosome biosynthesis, leading to a bistable switch in Pseudomonas fluorescens that enables rapid exit from stationary phase.

Ubiquitous abundance distribution of non-dominant plankton across the world’s ocean

The paper analyzes species abundance distributions in marine microbial eukaryotes to show that non-dominant OTUs follow a power-law decay with minimal variation across locations.