Paul B. Rainey
Max Planck Society
235 Papers
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Paul B. Rainey is an academic researcher from Max Planck Society. The author has contributed to research in topics: Biology & Pseudomonas fluorescens. The author has an hindex of 70, co-authored 222 publications. Previous affiliations of Paul B. Rainey include Massey University & Mansfield University of Pennsylvania.
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Papers
Adaptive radiation in a heterogeneous environment
Paul B. Rainey,Michael Travisano +1 more
TL;DR: It is demonstrated that the elementary processes of mutation and selection alone are suifficient to promote rapid proliferation of new designs and support the theory that trade-offs in competitive ability drive adaptive radiation.
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Experimental evolution of bet hedging
TL;DR: The de novo evolution of bet hedging in experimental bacterial populations is reported, suggesting that risk-spreading strategies may have been among the earliest evolutionary solutions to life in fluctuating environments.
Challenges in microbial ecology: building predictive understanding of community function and dynamics
Stefanie Widder,Rosalind J. Allen,Thomas Pfeiffer,Thomas P. Curtis,Carsten Wiuf,William T. Sloan,Otto X. Cordero,Sam P. Brown,Babak Momeni,Wenying Shou,Helen Kettle,Harry J. Flint,Andreas F. Haas,Béatrice Laroche,Jan-Ulrich Kreft,Paul B. Rainey,Shiri Freilich,Stefan Schuster,Kim Milferstedt,Jan Roelof van der Meer,Tobias Groβkopf,Jef Huisman,Andrew Free,Cristian Picioreanu,Christopher Quince,Isaac Klapper,Simon Labarthe,Barth F. Smets,Harris H. Wang,Orkun S. Soyer +29 more
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors argue that the ability to predict and manage the function of these highly complex, dynamically changing communities is limited, and that close coordination of experimental data collection and method development with mathematical model building is needed to achieve significant progress in understanding of microbial dynamics and function.
Antagonistic coevolution between a bacterium and a bacteriophage.
Angus Buckling,Paul B. Rainey +1 more
TL;DR: A long–term arms race between the infectivity of a viral parasite (bacteriophage; phage) and the resistance of its bacterial host is demonstrated.
Evolution of species interactions in a biofilm community
TL;DR: The results show that evolution in a spatially structured environment can stabilize interactions between species, provoke marked changes in their symbiotic nature and affect community function.
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