Research Interests
Cooperation and conflict in social evolution; experimental evolution with Dictyostelids
Dr. Saxer has worked for 8 years in bacterial ecology, and 3 years on Dictyostelium. She has a great deal of experience with competition/cheating experiments involving mixing different clones during the social stage. She has also done genomic analyses of resequencing using experimentally evolved clones.
Selected Publications
- Saxer, G., M. Doebeli and M. Travisano (2008): Spatial structure leads to ecological breakdown and loss of diversity. Proceedings of the Royal Society B 276:2065-2070.
- Spencer, C.C., G. Saxer, M. Travisano and M. Doebeli (2007): Seasonal resource oscillations maintain diversity in bacterial microcosms. Evolutionary Ecology Research 9: 775-787
- Tyerman, J., N. Harvard, G. Saxer, M. Travisano and M. Doebeli (2005): Unparallel diversification in bacterial microcosms. Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences 272:1393-1398.
- Friesen, M., G. Saxer, M. Doebeli and M. Travisano (2004): Experimental evidence for sympatric ecological diversification due to frequency-dependent competition in Escherichia coli. Evolution 58: 245-260.
- Van Buskirk, J. and G. Saxer (2001): Delayed costs of an induced defense in tadpoles? Morphology, hopping and development rate at metamorphosis. Evolution 55: 821-829.
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