Across the tree of life, populations have evolved the capacity to contend with suboptimal
conditions by engaging in dormancy, whereby individuals enter a reversible state of reduced …

Dormancy is a bet‐hedging strategy that allows organisms to persist through conditions that
are suboptimal for growth and reproduction by entering a reversible state of reduced …

Microorganisms commonly inhabit energy-limited ecosystems where cellular maintenance
and reproduction is highly constrained. To gain insight into how individuals persist under …

Gene drive technology, in which fast‐spreading engineered drive alleles are introduced into
wild populations, represents a promising new tool in the fight against vector‐borne diseases …

The definition of bacterial essential genes has been widely pursued using different
approaches. Their study has impacted several fields of research such as synthetic biology …

The goal of this article is to contribute towards the conceptual and quantitative
understanding of the evolutionary benefits for (microbial) populations to maintain a seed …

One of the best-studied transcriptional regulatory proteins in bacteria is the Escherichia coli
catabolite repressor protein (CRP) that when complexed with 3′-5′-cyclic AMP (cAMP) …

Seed banks are common characteristics to many plant species, which allow storage of
genetic diversity in the soil as dormant seeds for various periods of time. We investigate an …

We introduce a new Wright-Fisher type model for seed banks incorporating “simultaneous
switching”, which is motivated by recent work on microbial dormancy ([21],[28]). We show …

This paper introduces a stochastic adaptive dynamics model for the interplay of several
crucial traits and mechanisms in bacterial evolution, namely dormancy, horizontal gene …