E. Toby Kiers

Research interests

Publications

• Mycorrhizal mycelium as a global carbon pool

  Current Biology · 2023 · https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cub.2023.02.027

• Core microbiomes for sustainable agroecosystems

  Nature Plants · 2018 · https://doi.org/10.1038/s41477-018-0139-4

• The evolution of host-symbiont dependence

  Nature Communications · 2017 · https://doi.org/10.1038/ncomms15973

• Major evolutionary transitions in individuality

  Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences · 2015 · https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1421402112

• Fungal nutrient allocation in common mycorrhizal networks is regulated by the carbon source strength of individual host plants

  New Phytologist · 2014 · https://doi.org/10.1111/nph.12827

• Evolution of microbial markets

  Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences · 2014 · https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1315980111

• A single evolutionary innovation drives the deep evolution of symbiotic N2-fixation in angiosperms

  Nature Communications · 2014 · https://doi.org/10.1038/ncomms5087

• Predicting community and ecosystem outcomes of mycorrhizal responses to global change

  Ecology Letters · 2013 · https://doi.org/10.1111/ele.12085

• Carbon availability triggers fungal nitrogen uptake and transport in arbuscular mycorrhizal symbiosis

  Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences · 2012 · https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1118650109

• Mycorrhizal fungal establishment in agricultural soils: factors determining inoculation success

  New Phytologist · 2012 · https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1469-8137.2012.04348.x

• Reciprocal Rewards Stabilize Cooperation in the Mycorrhizal Symbiosis

  Science · 2011 · https://doi.org/10.1126/science.1208473

• Inclusive fitness theory and eusociality

  Nature · 2011 · https://doi.org/10.1038/nature09831

• Synergy of multiple partners, including freeloaders, increases host fitness in a multispecies mutualism

  Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences · 2010 · https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1006872107

• Evolutionary ecology of mycorrhizal functional diversity in agricultural systems

  Evolutionary Applications · 2010 · https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1752-4571.2010.00145.x

• Mutualisms in a changing world: an evolutionary perspective

  Ecology Letters · 2010 · https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1461-0248.2010.01538.x

• Adapt or disperse: understanding species persistence in a changing world

  Global Change Biology · 2009 · https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1365-2486.2009.02014.x

• Agriculture at a Crossroads

  Science · 2008 · https://doi.org/10.1126/science.1158390

• Sanctions, Cooperation, and the Stability of Plant-Rhizosphere Mutualisms

  Annual Review of Ecology Evolution and Systematics · 2008 · https://doi.org/10.1146/annurev.ecolsys.39.110707.173423

• MUTUALISTIC STABILITY IN THE ARBUSCULAR MYCORRHIZAL SYMBIOSIS: EXPLORING HYPOTHESES OF EVOLUTIONARY COOPERATION

  Ecology · 2006 · https://doi.org/10.1890/0012-9658(2006)87[1627:msitam]2.0.co;2

• Host sanctions and the legume–rhizobium mutualism

  Nature · 2003 · https://doi.org/10.1038/nature01931

• Sanctions and mutualism stability: why do rhizobia fix nitrogen?

  Proceedings of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences · 2002 · https://doi.org/10.1098/rspb.2001.1878

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