Publications

smith j & Velicer GJ (Submitted) Facultative social exploitation among Myxococcus bacteria indirectly caused by evolution in an alternative environment.

smith j, Strassmann JE & Queller DC (In Press) Fine-scale spatial ecology drives kin selection relatedness among cooperating amoebae. Evolution

DiSalvo S, Brock DA, smith j, Queller DC, Joan E. Strassmann JE (2014) In the social amoeba Dictyostelium discoideum, density, not farming status, determines predatory success on unpalatable Escherichia coli. BMC Microbiology 14:328. doi: 10.1186/s12866-014-0328-x. PubMed

smith j, Queller DC & Strassmann JE (2014) Fruiting bodies of social amoebae increase spore dispersal by arthropods. BMC Evol Biol 14: 105. PubMed

smith j, Van Dyken JD & Velicer GJ (2014) Non-adaptive processes can create the appearance of facultative cheating in microbes. Evolution 68:816-826. PubMed

smith j (2012) Tragedy of the commons among antibiotic resistance plasmids. Evolution 66: 1269-1274. PubMed

smith j (2011) Superinfection drives virulence evolution in experimental populations of bacteria and plasmids. Evolution. 65: 831-841. JournalPubMedFaculty of 1000

smith j, Van Dyken JD & Zee PC (2010) A generalization of Hamilton’s rule for the evolution of microbial cooperation. Science 328: 1700–1703. JournalPubMedpdf

Smith J (2007) A gene’s-eye view of symbiont transmission. American Naturalist 170: 542–550. PubMedpdf

Smith J (2001) The social evolution of bacterial pathogenesis. Proceedings of the Royal Society of London B 268: 61–69. PubMedpdf

Smith JS & Nikonowicz EP (2000) Phosphorothioate substitution can substantially alter RNA conformation. Biochemistry 39: 5642–5652. PubMedpdf

Nikonowicz EP & Smith JS (1999) NMR spectroscopic investigations of phosphorothioate containing RNAs. Phosphorus, Sulfur, and Silicon and the Related Elements 146: 305–308.

Smith JS & Nikonowicz EP (1998) NMR structure and dynamics of an RNA motif common to the spliceosome branchpoint helix and the RNA binding site for phage GA coat protein. Biochemistry 37: 13486–13498. PubMedpdf

Comments and book chapters

Buttery N, smith j, Strassmann J & Queller D (2013) Measuring cheating, fitness and segregation in D. discoideum. In Dictyostelium discoideum Protocols, Second Edition. Eichinger L & Rivero F, Eds. Humana Press, Totowa, New Jersey.

Abbot P, Abe J, Alcock J & 134 other authors (2011) Inclusive fitness theory and eusociality. Nature 471: E1-E4. Journal

smith j (2011) Distinguishing causes of virulence evolution: Reply to Alizon & Michalakis. Evolution 65: 3639-3641. Journal