Papers

Driscoll, W.W. and Travisano, M. (2017) “Synergistic cooperation promotes multicellular performance and unicellular free-rider persistence.” Nature Communications 8: 15707.

Libby, E., Driscoll, W.W., and Ratcliff, W.C. (accepted) “Bet hedging drives selection for microbial programmed cell death.” Scientific reports.

Wilson, C.E., Eldakar, O.T., Lopez, J. V., Driscoll, W.W., and Smith, R.P. (2017) “Cooperation and competition shape ecological resistance during periodic spatial disturbance of engineered bacteria.” Scientific Reports 7: 440.

Driscoll, W.W., Hackett, J.D., and Ferrière, R. (2015) “Eco-evolutionary feedbacks between private and public goods: Evidence from toxic algal blooms.” Ecology Letters 19: 81-97.

Rainey, P. B., Desprat, N., Driscoll, W. W., and Zhang, X. X. (2014) “Microbes are not bound by sociobiology: response to Kümmerli and Ross-Gillespie.” Evolution, 68: 3344-3355.

Driscoll, W. W., Espinosa, N. J.*, and Hackett, J. D. (2013) “Allelopathy as an emergent, exploitable public good in the bloom-forming microalga Prymnesium parvum.” Evolution, 67: 1582-1590.

Herron, M., Shelton, D., Rashidi, A., and Driscoll, W. W. (2013) “Cellular differentiation and individuality in the “minor” multicellular taxa.” Biological Reviews, 88: 844-861.

Eldakar, O. T., Gallup, A. C., and Driscoll, W. W. (2013) “When hawks give rise to doves: the evolution and transition of enforcement strategies.” Evolution, 67: 1549-1560.

Driscoll, W. W., Pepper, J. W., Pierson, L. S., and Pierson, E. A. (2011) “Gac mutants in Pseudomonas chlororaphis biofilms: social parasite or mutualist?” Applied and Environmental Microbiology, 77: 7227-7235.

Driscoll, W. W. and Pepper, J. W. 2010. “Theory for the evolution of diffusible public goods traits.” Evolution, 64: 2682-2687.

Nedelcu, A., Driscoll, W. W., Durand, P., Herron, M., Rashidi, A., and Shelton, D. 2010. “On the paradigm of altruistic suicide in the unicellular world.” Evolution, 65: 3-20.

Driscoll, W. W., Wiles, G. C., D’Arrigo, R. D., and Wilmking, M. (2005) “Divergent tree growth response to recent climatic warming, Lake Clark National Park and Preserve, Alaska.” Geophysical Research Letters, 32: L20703.

* Undergraduate student