Publications

Dewar AE, Belcher LJ, Scott TW, West SA.  (2024) Genes for coopration are not more likely to be carried by plasmids. Proceedings of the Royal Society B, 291. DOI

Belcher LJ, Dewar AE, Hao C, Katz Z, Ghoul M, West SA.  (2023) SOCfinder: a genomic tool for identifying cooperative genes in bacteria. Microbial Genomics, 9(12), 001171. DOI

Belcher LJ, Dewar AE, Hao C, Ghoul M, West SA. (2023) Signatures of kin selection in a natural population of the bacteria Bacillus subtilis. Evolution Letters, 7(5), 315-330. DOI

Scott TW, West SA, Dewar AE, Wild G. (2023) Is Cooperation favoured by horizontal gene transfer? Evolution Letters, 7(3), 113-120. DOI

Hao C, Dewar AE, West SA, Ghoul M. (2022) Gene transferability and sociality do not correlate with gene connectivity. Proceedings of the Royal Society B, 289. DOI

Belcher LJ, Dewar AE, Ghoul M, West SA. (2022) Kin Selection for cooperation in natural bacterial populations. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 119(9). DOI

Dewar AE, Thomas JL, Scott TW, Wild G, Griffin AS, West SA, Ghoul M. (2021) Plasmids do not consistently stabilize cooperation across bacteria but may promote broad pathogen host-range. Nature Ecology & Evolution, 5, 1624-1636. DOI

Dewar AE. (2021) Horizontal gene transfer and cooperation in bacteria. University of Oxford. Repository Link