Publications
- Kassen, R. 2011. World View: If you want to win the game, you must join in. Nature 480: 153. pdf
- Bataillon, T, Zhang, T & Kassen, R. 2011. Cost of adaptation and fitness effects of beneficial mutations in Pseudomonas fluorescens. Genetics 189(3): 939-949. pdf
- Gifford, DR, Schoustra, SE & Kassen, R. 2011. The length of adaptive walks is insensitive to starting fitness in Aspergillus nidulans. Evolution. 65(11): 3070-3078. pdf
- Melnyk, AH & Kassen, R. 2011. Adaptive landscapes in evolving populations of Pseudomonas fluorescens. Evolution 65(11): 3048-3059.pdf
- Wong, A & Kassen, R. 2011. Parallel evolution and local differentiation in quinolone resistance in Pseudomonas aeruginosa. Microbiology 157: 937-944. pdf
- Meyer, JR, Schoustra, SE, Lachapelle, J & Kassen, R. 2011. Overshooting dynamics in a model adaptive radiation. Proc R Soc B. 278(1704): 392-398. pdf
- Fitzsimmons, JM, Schoustra SE, Kerr, JT & Kassen, R. 2010. Population consequences of mutational events: effects of antibiotic resistance on the r/K trade-off. Evolutionary Ecology 24:227-236. pdf
- Schoustra, S, Rundle, HD, Dali, R & Kassen, R. 2010. Fitness-associated sexual reproduction in a filamentous fungus. Current Biology 20(15): 1-6. pdf, Dispatch by Cliff Zeyl
- Pepper, JW, Findlay, CS, Kassen, R, Spencer, SL & Maley, CC. 2009. Cancer research meets evolutionary biology. Evolutionary Applications 2(1): 62-70. pdf
- Kassen, R. 2009. Towards a general theory of adaptive radiation: insights from microbial experimental evolution. NYAS 1168: 3-22. pdf
- Sherratt, TN, Roberts, G & Kassen, R. 2009. Evolutionary stable investment in products that confer both and individual benefit and public good. Frontiers in Bioscience E1: 340-347. pdf
- Bantinaki, E, Kassen, R, Knight, CG, Robinson, Z, Spiers, AJ & Rainey, PB. 2007. Adaptive divergence in experimental populations of Pseudomonas fluorescens. III. Mutational origins of wrinkly spreader diversity. Genetics 176: 441-453. pdf
- Jasmin, J-N & Kassen, R. 2007. Evolution of a single niche specialist in variable environments. Proc R Soc B. 274(1626): 2761-2767 pdf
- Meyer, JR & Kassen, R. 2007. The effects of competition and predation on diversification in a model adaptive radiation. Nature 446: 432-435. pdf, supplementary information, Nature News & Views Commentary
- Jasmin, J-N & Kassen, R. 2007. On the experimental evolution of specialization and diversity in heterogeneous environments. Ecology Letters 10: 272-281. pdf
- Kassen, R & Bataillon, T. 2006. The distribution of fitness effects among beneficial mutations prior to selection in experimental populations of bacteria. Nature Genetics: 38, 484-488. pdf
- Kassen, R, Llewellyn, M & Rainey, PB. 2004. Ecological constraints on diversification in a model adaptive radiation. Nature 43: 984-988. pdf
- Kassen, R & Rainey, PB. 2004. The ecology and genetics of microbial diversity. Annual Reviews of Microbiology 58: 207-231. pdf
- Knight, C, Kassen, R, Hebestreit, H & Rainey, PB. 2004. Global analysis of predicted proteomes: functional adaptation of physical properties. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences USA 101: 8390-8395. pdf
- Jessup, CM, Kassen, R, Forde, SE, Kerr, B, Buckling, A, Rainey, PB & Bohannon, BJM. 2004. Big questions, small worlds: microbial model systems in ecology. Trends in Ecology and Evolution 19: 189-197. pdf
- Kassen, R. 2002. The experimental evolution of specialists, generalists, and the maintenance of diversity. J. Evol. Biol. 15: 173-190. pdf
- Buckling, A, Kassen, R, Bell, G & Rainey, PB. 2000. Disturbance and diversity in experimental microcosms. Nature 408: 961-965. pdf
- Kassen, R, Buckling, A, Bell, G & Rainey, PB. 2000. Diversity peaks at intermediate productivity in a laboratory microcosm. Nature 406: 508-512. pdf
- Rainey, PB, Buckling, A, Kassen, R & Travisano, M. 2000. The emergence and maintenance of diversity: insights from experimental bacterial populations. Trends in Ecology and Evolution 15: 243-247. pdf
- Kassen, R & Bell, G. 2000. The ecology and genetics of fitness in Chlamydomonas. X. The relationship between genetic correlation and genetic distance. Evolution 54: 425-432. pdf
- Kassen, R & Bell, G. 1998. Experimental evolution in Chlamydomonas. IV. Selection in environments that vary through time at different scales. Heredity 80: 732-741. pdf