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Overview

Angus Buckling is affiliated with the University of Exeter in the United Kingdom. Their research is situated primarily within the fields of Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology, as well as Environmental Science. Their work extends across several subfields including Molecular Biology, Genetics, Ecology, Sociology and Political Science, and Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics.

The scientist's research topics cover a range of areas focused on evolutionary and microbial dynamics. These include:

  • Evolution and Genetic Dynamics
  • Bacteriophages and microbial interactions
  • Evolutionary Game Theory and Cooperation
  • Plant and animal studies
  • Gut microbiota and health
  • Antibiotic Resistance in Bacteria
  • Microbial Community Ecology and Physiology

Angus Buckling has contributed to numerous scientific publications. Among their recent papers are:

  • "The Reproductive Microbiome: An Emerging Driver of Sexual Selection, Sexual Conflict, Mating Systems, and Reproductive Isolation," 2020, published in Trends in Ecology & Evolution
  • "Evolutionary temperature compensation of carbon fixation in marine phytoplankton," 2020, published in Ecology Letters
  • "Community coalescence: an eco-evolutionary perspective," 2020, published in Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences
  • "Antimicrobial resistance acquisition via natural transformation: context is everything," 2021, published in Current Opinion in Microbiology
  • "Resident microbial communities inhibit growth and antibiotic-resistance evolution of Escherichia coli in human gut microbiome samples," 2020, published in PLoS Biology

Their frequent co-authors reflect a collaborative research network and include:

  • Elze Hesse
  • Luke Lear
  • Daniel Padfield
  • Meaghan Castledine
  • Michiel Vos

Publication venues where Angus Buckling's work appears frequently include:

  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
  • Ecology Letters
  • OPAL (Open@LaTrobe) (La Trobe University)
  • Microbiology

Best Publications

  • Cooperation and competition in pathogenic bacteria

    Ashleigh S Griffin;Stuart A West;Angus Buckling

  • The Social Lives of Microbes

    Stuart A. West;Stephen P. Diggle;Angus Buckling;Andy Gardner

  • Antagonistic coevolution between a bacterium and a bacteriophage.

    Angus Buckling;Paul B Rainey

  • Antagonistic coevolution accelerates molecular evolution

    Steve Paterson;Tom Vogwill;Angus Buckling;Rebecca Benmayor

  • Inclusive fitness theory and eusociality

    Patrick Abbot;Jun Abe;John Alcock;Samuel Alizon

  • Big questions, small worlds: microbial model systems in ecology

    Christine M. Jessup;Rees Kassen;Samantha E. Forde;Ben Kerr

  • Bacteria-phage antagonistic coevolution in soil.

    Pedro Gómez;Pedro Gómez;Angus Buckling;Angus Buckling

  • Diversity peaks at intermediate productivity in a laboratory microcosm.

    Rees Kassen;Angus Buckling;Graham Bell;Paul B. Rainey

  • Diversity of locust gut bacteria protects against pathogen invasion

    R. J. Dillon;C. T. Vennard;A. Buckling;A. K. Charnley

  • The causes of Pseudomonas diversity

    Andrew J. Spiers;Angus Buckling;Paul B. Rainey

  • Cooperation, virulence and siderophore production in bacterial parasites.

    Stuart A West;Angus Buckling

  • Coevolution with viruses drives the evolution of bacterial mutation rates

    Csaba Pal;María D. Maciá;Antonio Oliver;Ira Schachar

  • The role of parasites in sympatric and allopatric host diversification

    Angus Buckling;Paul B. Rainey;Paul B. Rainey

  • Rapid evolution of metabolic traits explains thermal adaptation in phytoplankton.

    Daniel Padfield;Genevieve Yvon-Durocher;Angus Buckling;Simon Jennings;Simon Jennings

  • Host–parasite coevolutionary arms races give way to fluctuating selection

    Alex R. Hall;Pauline D. Scanlan;Andrew D. Morgan;Andrew D. Morgan;Angus Buckling;Angus Buckling

  • Bacteriocins, spite and virulence

    Andy Gardner;Stuart A. West;Angus Buckling

  • Disturbance and diversity in experimental microcosms

    Angus Buckling;Rees Kassen;Graham Bell;Paul B. Rainey

  • The effect of migration on local adaptation in a coevolving host–parasite system

    Andrew D. Morgan;Sylvain Gandon;Angus Buckling

  • Parasite Exposure Drives Selective Evolution of Constitutive versus Inducible Defense

    Edze R. Westra;Stineke van Houte;Sam Oyesiku-Blakemore;Ben Makin

  • The Beagle in a bottle

    Angus Buckling;R. Craig Maclean;Michael A. Brockhurst;Nick Colegrave

  • The population genetics of antibiotic resistance: integrating molecular mechanisms and treatment contexts

    R. Craig MacLean;Alex R. Hall;Gabriel G. Perron;Angus Buckling

Frequent Co-Authors

Michael A. Brockhurst
Michael A. Brockhurst University of Manchester
Paul B. Rainey
Paul B. Rainey Max Planck Society
Andy Gardner
Andy Gardner University of St Andrews
Stuart A. West
Stuart A. West University of Oxford
Gabriel Yvon-Durocher
Gabriel Yvon-Durocher University of Exeter
Steve Paterson
Steve Paterson University of Liverpool
Sylvain Gandon
Sylvain Gandon Centre national de la recherche scientifique, CNRS
Sam P. Brown
Sam P. Brown Georgia Institute of Technology
David J. Hodgson
David J. Hodgson University of Exeter
Mike Boots
Mike Boots University of California, Berkeley

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