Publications

smith j, Strassmann JE & Queller DC (Submitted) Spatial and behavioral determinants of social structure among cooperative Dictyostelium amoebae.

smith j, Van Dyken JD & Velicer GJ (Submitted) Non-adaptive processes can create the appearance of facultative cheating in microbes.

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

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

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

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

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

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