Research Interests
Cooperation and conflict in social evolution; experimental evolution with Dictyostelids
Selected Publications (click on title to view PDF)
- 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.