Gregory Velicer - Publications

Affiliations: 
ETH/Uni Zurich, Zürich, Zürich, Switzerland 
Area:
Microbial evolution, microbial ecology

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2024 Vasse M, Fiegna F, Kriesel B, Velicer GJ. Killer prey: Ecology reverses bacterial predation. Plos Biology. 22: e3002454. PMID 38261596 DOI: 10.1371/journal.pbio.3002454  0.662
2023 Schaal KA, Manhes P, Velicer GJ. Ecological histories determine the success of social exploitation. Biorxiv : the Preprint Server For Biology. PMID 38168390 DOI: 10.1101/2023.12.14.571652  0.683
2023 Fiegna F, Pande S, Peitz H, Velicer GJ. Widespread density dependence of bacterial growth under acid stress. Iscience. 26: 106952. PMID 37332671 DOI: 10.1016/j.isci.2023.106952  0.618
2023 Cossey SM, Velicer GJ, Yu YN. Ribonuclease D Processes a Small RNA Regulator of Multicellular Development in Myxobacteria. Genes. 14. PMID 37239421 DOI: 10.3390/genes14051061  0.611
2022 Schaal KA, Yu YN, Vasse M, Velicer GJ. Allopatric divergence of cooperators confers cheating resistance and limits effects of a defector mutation. Bmc Ecology and Evolution. 22: 141. PMID 36510120 DOI: 10.1186/s12862-022-02094-7  0.661
2022 La Fortezza M, Rendueles O, Keller H, Velicer GJ. Author Correction: Hidden paths to endless forms most wonderful: ecology latently shapes evolution of multicellular development in predatory bacteria. Communications Biology. 5: 1342. PMID 36477143 DOI: 10.1038/s42003-022-04312-w  0.609
2022 La Fortezza M, Rendueles O, Keller H, Velicer GJ. Hidden paths to endless forms most wonderful: ecology latently shapes evolution of multicellular development in predatory bacteria. Communications Biology. 5: 977. PMID 36114258 DOI: 10.1038/s42003-022-03912-w  0.678
2022 Eisner SA, Velicer GJ, Yu YN. Mutation of Shifts the Nutrient Threshold Triggering Multicellular Development. Frontiers in Microbiology. 13: 817080. PMID 35359737 DOI: 10.3389/fmicb.2022.817080  0.645
2021 La Fortezza M, Velicer GJ. Social selection within aggregative multicellular development drives morphological evolution. Proceedings. Biological Sciences. 288: 20211522. PMID 34814750 DOI: 10.1098/rspb.2021.1522  0.709
2021 Nair RR, Velicer GJ. Predatory Bacteria Select for Sustained Prey Diversity. Microorganisms. 9. PMID 34683400 DOI: 10.3390/microorganisms9102079  0.67
2021 Mayrhofer N, Velicer GJ, Schaal KA, Vasse M. Behavioral Interactions between Bacterivorous Nematodes and Predatory Bacteria in a Synthetic Community. Microorganisms. 9. PMID 34201688 DOI: 10.3390/microorganisms9071362  0.647
2021 Freund L, Vasse M, Velicer GJ. Hidden paths to endless forms most wonderful: parasite-blind diversification of host quality. Proceedings. Biological Sciences. 288: 20210456. PMID 33906400 DOI: 10.1098/rspb.2021.0456  0.645
2020 Rendueles O, Velicer GJ. Hidden paths to endless forms most wonderful: Complexity of bacterial motility shapes diversification of latent phenotypes. Bmc Evolutionary Biology. 20: 145. PMID 33148179 DOI: 10.1186/s12862-020-01707-3  0.64
2020 Pande S, Pérez Escriva P, Yu YN, Sauer U, Velicer GJ. Cooperation and Cheating among Germinating Spores. Current Biology : Cb. PMID 32976811 DOI: 10.1016/j.cub.2020.08.091  0.706
2019 Cossey SM, Yu YN, Cossu L, Velicer GJ. Kin discrimination and outer membrane exchange in Myxococcus xanthus: Experimental analysis of a natural population. Plos One. 14: e0224817. PMID 31774841 DOI: 10.1371/Journal.Pone.0224817  0.656
2019 Nair RR, Vasse M, Wielgoss S, Sun L, Yu YN, Velicer GJ. Bacterial predator-prey coevolution accelerates genome evolution and selects on virulence-associated prey defences. Nature Communications. 10: 4301. PMID 31541093 DOI: 10.1038/S41467-019-12140-6  0.663
2019 Wielgoss S, Wolfensberger R, Sun L, Fiegna F, Velicer GJ. Social genes are selection hotspots in kin groups of a soil microbe. Science (New York, N.Y.). 363: 1342-1345. PMID 30898932 DOI: 10.1126/Science.Aar4416  0.713
2019 Chen IK, Satinsky BM, Velicer GJ, Yu YN. sRNA-pathway genes regulating myxobacterial development exhibit clade-specific evolution. Evolution & Development. PMID 30762281 DOI: 10.1111/Ede.12281  0.658
2018 Wielgoss S, Fiegna F, Rendueles O, Yu YN, Velicer GJ. Kin discrimination and outer membrane exchange in Myxococcus xanthus: a comparative analysis among natural isolates. Molecular Ecology. PMID 29924883 DOI: 10.1111/Mec.14773  0.684
2018 Nair RR, Fiegna F, Velicer GJ. Indirect evolution of social fitness inequalities and facultative social exploitation. Proceedings. Biological Sciences. 285. PMID 29593113 DOI: 10.1098/Rspb.2018.0054  0.728
2018 Pande S, Velicer GJ. Chimeric Synergy in Natural Social Groups of a Cooperative Microbe. Current Biology : Cb. 28: 487. PMID 29408250 DOI: 10.1016/j.cub.2018.01.044  0.666
2018 Pande S, Velicer GJ. Chimeric Synergy in Natural Social Groups of a Cooperative Microbe. Current Biology : Cb. PMID 29337077 DOI: 10.1016/J.Cub.2017.11.043  0.674
2018 Amherd M, Velicer GJ, Rendueles O. Spontaneous nongenetic variation of group size creates cheater-free groups of social microbes Behavioral Ecology. 29: 393-403. DOI: 10.1093/Beheco/Arx184  0.685
2017 Yu YN, Cooper E, Velicer GJ. A conserved stem of the Myxococcus xanthus sRNA Pxr controls sRNA accumulation and multicellular development. Scientific Reports. 7: 15411. PMID 29133885 DOI: 10.1038/S41598-017-15439-W  0.623
2017 Chen IK, Velicer GJ, Yu YN. Divergence of functional effects among bacterial sRNA paralogs. Bmc Evolutionary Biology. 17: 199. PMID 28830343 DOI: 10.1186/S12862-017-1037-5  0.624
2017 Zee PC, Velicer GJ. Parallel emergence of negative epistasis across experimental lineages. Evolution; International Journal of Organic Evolution. PMID 28128449 DOI: 10.1111/Evo.13190  0.824
2016 Zee PC, Liu J, Velicer GJ. Pervasive, yet idiosyncratic, epistatic pleiotropy during adaptation in a behaviourally complex microbe. Journal of Evolutionary Biology. 30: 257-269. PMID 27862537 DOI: 10.1111/Jeb.12999  0.829
2016 Rendueles O, Velicer GJ. Evolution by flight and fight: diverse mechanisms of adaptation by actively motile microbes. The Isme Journal. PMID 27662568 DOI: 10.1038/Ismej.2016.115  0.671
2016 Yu YN, Kleiner M, Velicer GJ. Spontaneous reversions of an evolutionary trait loss reveal regulators of an sRNA that controls multicellular development in the myxobacteria. Journal of Bacteriology. PMID 27621281 DOI: 10.1128/Jb.00389-16  0.671
2016 Kraemer SA, Wielgoss S, Fiegna F, Velicer GJ. The biogeography of kin discrimination across microbial neighborhoods. Molecular Ecology. PMID 27540705 DOI: 10.1111/Mec.13803  0.777
2016 Velicer GJ, Plucain J. Evolution: Bacterial Territoriality as a Byproduct of Kin Discriminatory Warfare. Current Biology : Cb. 26: R364-6. PMID 27166695 DOI: 10.1016/J.Cub.2016.03.033  0.658
2016 Wielgoss S, Didelot X, Chaudhuri RR, Liu X, Weedall GD, Velicer GJ, Vos M. A barrier to homologous recombination between sympatric strains of the cooperative soil bacterium Myxococcus xanthus. The Isme Journal. PMID 27046334 DOI: 10.1038/Ismej.2016.34  0.651
2015 O'Malley MA, Travisano M, Velicer GJ, Bolker JA. HOW DO MICROBIAL POPULATIONS AND COMMUNITIES FUNCTION AS MODEL SYSTEMS? The Quarterly Review of Biology. 90: 269-93. PMID 26591851 DOI: 10.1086/682588  0.72
2015 Rendueles O, Zee PC, Dinkelacker I, Amherd M, Wielgoss S, Velicer GJ. Rapid and widespread de novo evolution of kin discrimination. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America. 112: 9076-81. PMID 26150498 DOI: 10.1073/Pnas.1502251112  0.834
2015 Rendueles O, Amherd M, Velicer GJ. Positively Frequency-Dependent Interference Competition Maintains Diversity and Pervades a Natural Population of Cooperative Microbes. Current Biology : Cb. 25: 1673-1681. PMID 26051889 DOI: 10.1016/J.Cub.2015.04.057  0.688
2015 Rajagopalan R, Wielgoss S, Lippert G, Velicer GJ, Kroos L. devI is an evolutionarily young negative regulator of Myxococcus xanthus development. Journal of Bacteriology. 197: 1249-62. PMID 25645563 DOI: 10.1128/Jb.02542-14  0.634
2015 O'Malley MA, Travisano M, Velicer GJ, Bolker JA. How do microbial populations and communities function as model systems? Quarterly Review of Biology. 90: 269-293.  0.711
2014 Zee PC, Mendes-Soares H, Yu YT, Kraemer SA, Keller H, Ossowski S, Schneeberger K, Velicer GJ. A shift from magnitude to sign epistasis during adaptive evolution of a bacterial social trait. Evolution; International Journal of Organic Evolution. 68: 2701-8. PMID 24909926 DOI: 10.1111/Evo.12467  0.802
2014 Mendes-Soares H, Chen IC, Fitzpatrick K, Velicer GJ. Chimaeric load among sympatric social bacteria increases with genotype richness. Proceedings. Biological Sciences / the Royal Society. 281. PMID 24870038 DOI: 10.1098/Rspb.2014.0285  0.822
2014 Kraemer SA, Velicer GJ. Social complementation and growth advantages promote socially defective bacterial isolates. Proceedings. Biological Sciences / the Royal Society. 281: 20140036. PMID 24573856 DOI: 10.1098/Rspb.2014.0036  0.791
2014 Chen IC, Griesenauer B, Yu YT, Velicer GJ. A recent evolutionary origin of a bacterial small RNA that controls multicellular fruiting body development. Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution. 73: 1-9. PMID 24418530 DOI: 10.1016/J.Ympev.2014.01.001  0.636
2014 Smith J, Van Dyken JD, Velicer GJ. Nonadaptive processes can create the appearance of facultative cheating in microbes. Evolution; International Journal of Organic Evolution. 68: 816-26. PMID 24171718 DOI: 10.1111/Evo.12306  0.828
2013 Mendes-Soares H, Velicer GJ. Decomposing predation: testing for parameters that correlate with predatory performance by a social bacterium. Microbial Ecology. 65: 415-23. PMID 23184156 DOI: 10.1007/S00248-012-0135-6  0.804
2011 Kraemer SA, Velicer GJ. Endemic social diversity within natural kin groups of a cooperative bacterium. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America. 108: 10823-30. PMID 21690390 DOI: 10.1073/Pnas.1100307108  0.794
2011 Manhes P, Velicer GJ. Experimental evolution of selfish policing in social bacteria. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America. 108: 8357-62. PMID 21531905 DOI: 10.1073/Pnas.1014695108  0.722
2010 Morgan AD, MacLean RC, Hillesland KL, Velicer GJ. Comparative analysis of myxococcus predation on soil bacteria. Applied and Environmental Microbiology. 76: 6920-7. PMID 20802074 DOI: 10.1128/Aem.00414-10  0.794
2010 Kraemer SA, Toups MA, Velicer GJ. Natural variation in developmental life-history traits of the bacterium Myxococcus xanthus. Fems Microbiology Ecology. 73: 226-33. PMID 20491924 DOI: 10.1111/J.1574-6941.2010.00888.X  0.804
2010 Yu YT, Yuan X, Velicer GJ. Adaptive evolution of an sRNA that controls Myxococcus development. Science (New York, N.Y.). 328: 993. PMID 20489016 DOI: 10.1126/Science.1187200  0.661
2009 Vos M, Velicer GJ. Social conflict in centimeter-and global-scale populations of the bacterium Myxococcus xanthus. Current Biology : Cb. 19: 1763-7. PMID 19879146 DOI: 10.1016/J.Cub.2009.08.061  0.719
2009 Velicer GJ, Vos M. Sociobiology of the myxobacteria. Annual Review of Microbiology. 63: 599-623. PMID 19575567 DOI: 10.1146/Annurev.Micro.091208.073158  0.707
2009 Velicer GJ, Mendes-Soares H. Bacterial predators. Current Biology : Cb. 19: R55-6. PMID 19174136 DOI: 10.1016/j.cub.2008.10.043  0.777
2009 Hillesland KL, Velicer GJ, Lenski RE. Experimental evolution of a microbial predator's ability to find prey. Proceedings. Biological Sciences / the Royal Society. 276: 459-67. PMID 18832061 DOI: 10.1098/Rspb.2008.1098  0.794
2008 Vos M, Velicer GJ. Natural variation of gliding motility in a centimetre-scale population of Myxococcus xanthus. Fems Microbiology Ecology. 64: 343-50. PMID 18410356 DOI: 10.1111/J.1574-6941.2008.00484.X  0.695
2008 Kadam SV, Wegener-Feldbrügge S, Søgaard-Andersen L, Velicer GJ. Novel transcriptome patterns accompany evolutionary restoration of defective social development in the bacterium Myxococcus xanthus. Molecular Biology and Evolution. 25: 1274-81. PMID 18385222 DOI: 10.1093/Molbev/Msn076  0.648
2008 Krug D, Zurek G, Revermann O, Vos M, Velicer GJ, Müller R. Discovering the hidden secondary metabolome of Myxococcus xanthus: a study of intraspecific diversity. Applied and Environmental Microbiology. 74: 3058-68. PMID 18378661 DOI: 10.1128/Aem.02863-07  0.612
2008 Vos M, Velicer GJ. Isolation by distance in the spore-forming soil bacterium Myxococcus xanthus. Current Biology : Cb. 18: 386-91. PMID 18328701 DOI: 10.1016/J.Cub.2008.02.050  0.655
2008 Vos M, Velicer GJ. Isolation by Distance in the Spore-Forming Soil Bacterium Myxococcus xanthus (DOI:10.1016/S0000-0000(00)00000-0) Current Biology. 18: 786. DOI: 10.1016/j.cub.2008.05.005  0.579
2007 Schneiker S, Perlova O, Kaiser O, Gerth K, Alici A, Altmeyer MO, Bartels D, Bekel T, Beyer S, Bode E, Bode HB, Bolten CJ, Choudhuri JV, Doss S, Elnakady YA, ... Velicer GJ, et al. Complete genome sequence of the myxobacterium Sorangium cellulosum. Nature Biotechnology. 25: 1281-9. PMID 17965706 DOI: 10.1038/Nbt1354  0.604
2007 Hillesland KL, Lenski RE, Velicer GJ. Ecological variables affecting predatory success in Myxococcus xanthus. Microbial Ecology. 53: 571-8. PMID 17410395 DOI: 10.1007/S00248-006-9111-3  0.781
2006 Fiegna F, Yu YT, Kadam SV, Velicer GJ. Evolution of an obligate social cheater to a superior cooperator. Nature. 441: 310-4. PMID 16710413 DOI: 10.1038/Nature04677  0.701
2006 Velicer GJ, Raddatz G, Keller H, Deiss S, Lanz C, Dinkelacker I, Schuster SC. Comprehensive mutation identification in an evolved bacterial cooperator and its cheating ancestor. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America. 103: 8107-12. PMID 16707573 DOI: 10.1073/Pnas.0510740103  0.657
2006 Vos M, Velicer GJ. Genetic population structure of the soil bacterium Myxococcus xanthus at the centimeter scale. Applied and Environmental Microbiology. 72: 3615-25. PMID 16672510 DOI: 10.1128/Aem.72.5.3615-3625.2006  0.686
2006 Kadam SV, Velicer GJ. Variable patterns of density-dependent survival in social bacteria Behavioral Ecology. 17: 833-838. DOI: 10.1093/Beheco/Arl018  0.7
2005 Fiegna F, Velicer GJ. Exploitative and hierarchical antagonism in a cooperative bacterium. Plos Biology. 3: e370. PMID 16248676 DOI: 10.1371/Journal.Pbio.0030370  0.725
2005 Hillesland KL, Velicer GJ. Resource level affects relative performance of the two motility systems of Myxococcus xanthus. Microbial Ecology. 49: 558-66. PMID 16052373 DOI: 10.1007/S00248-004-0069-8  0.789
2005 Velicer GJ. Evolution of cooperation: the benefits of ridesharing. Heredity. 95: 116-7. PMID 15931249 DOI: 10.1038/Sj.Hdy.6800688  0.621
2005 Velicer GJ. Evolution of cooperation: does selfishness restraint lie within? Current Biology : Cb. 15: R173-5. PMID 15753030 DOI: 10.1016/J.Cub.2005.02.045  0.696
2004 Travisano M, Velicer GJ. Strategies of microbial cheater control. Trends in Microbiology. 12: 72-8. PMID 15036323 DOI: 10.1016/J.Tim.2003.12.009  0.775
2003 Fiegna F, Velicer GJ. Competitive fates of bacterial social parasites: persistence and self-induced extinction of Myxococcus xanthus cheaters. Proceedings. Biological Sciences / the Royal Society. 270: 1527-34. PMID 12965020 DOI: 10.1098/Rspb.2003.2387  0.677
2003 Velicer GJ, Yu YT. Evolution of novel cooperative swarming in the bacterium Myxococcus xanthus. Nature. 425: 75-8. PMID 12955143 DOI: 10.1038/Nature01908  0.682
2003 Velicer GJ. Social strife in the microbial world. Trends in Microbiology. 11: 330-7. PMID 12875817 DOI: 10.1016/S0966-842X(03)00152-5  0.701
2002 Velicer GJ, Stredwick KL. Experimental social evolution with Myxococcus xanthus. Antonie Van Leeuwenhoek. 81: 155-64. PMID 12448714 DOI: 10.1023/A:1020546130033  0.718
2002 Hao T, Biran D, Velicer GJ, Kroos L. Identification of the Omega4514 regulatory region, a developmental promoter of Myxococcus xanthus that is transcribed in vitro by the major vegetative RNA polymerase. Journal of Bacteriology. 184: 3348-59. PMID 12029052 DOI: 10.1128/Jb.184.12.3348-3359.2002  0.573
2002 Velicer GJ, Lenski RE, Kroos L. Rescue of social motility lost during evolution of Myxococcus xanthus in an asocial environment. Journal of Bacteriology. 184: 2719-27. PMID 11976301 DOI: 10.1128/Jb.184.10.2719-2727.2002  0.758
2001 Lenski R, Velicer GJ. Games Microbes Play Selection. 1: 89-96. DOI: 10.1556/Select.1.2000.1-3.9  0.72
2000 Velicer GJ, Kroos L, Lenski RE. Developmental cheating in the social bacterium Myxococcus xanthus. Nature. 404: 598-601. PMID 10766241 DOI: 10.1038/35007066  0.767
1999 Velicer GJ, Schmidt TM, Lenski RE. Application of Traditional and Phylogenetically Based Comparative Methods to Test for a Trade-off in Bacterial Growth Rate at Low versus High Substrate Concentration. Microbial Ecology. 38: 191-200. PMID 10541781 DOI: 10.1007/S002489900169  0.69
1999 Velicer GJ. Pleiotropic effects of adaptation to a single carbon source for growth on alternative substrates Applied and Environmental Microbiology. 65: 264-9. PMID 9872788 DOI: 10.1128/Aem.65.1.264-269.1999  0.633
1999 Velicer GJ, Lenski RE. Evolutionary trade-offs under conditions of resource abundance and scarcity: Experiments with bacteria Ecology. 80: 1168-1179. DOI: 10.1890/0012-9658(1999)080[1168:Etouco]2.0.Co;2  0.725
1999 Velicer G, Schmidt T, Lenski R. Application of Traditional and Phylogenetically Based Comparative Methods to Test for a Trade-off in Bacterial Growth Rate at Low versus High Substrate Concentration Microbial Ecology. 38: 191-200. DOI: 10.1007/s0024899001771999  0.455
1998 Velicer GJ, Kroos L, Lenski RE. Loss of social behaviors by myxococcus xanthus during evolution in an unstructured habitat. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America. 95: 12376-80. PMID 9770494 DOI: 10.1073/Pnas.95.21.12376  0.759
1998 Velicer G. Bacteria as Multicellular Organisms.James A. Shapiro , Martin Dworkin The Quarterly Review of Biology. 73: 352-353. DOI: 10.1086/420338  0.612
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