Publications

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Preprints

Estrela S*, Sanchez-Gorostiaga A*, Vila J* & Sanchez A (2020) Nutrient dominance governs the assembly of microbial communities in mixed nutrient environments. bioRxiv. doi.org/10.1101/2020.08.06.239897v1

Chang C-Y*, Vila J*, Bender J, Li R, Mankowski MC, Bassette M, Borden J, Golfier S, Sanchez PG, Waymack R, Zhu X, Diaz-Colunga J, Estrela S, Rebolleda-Gomez M & Sanchez A (2020) Top-down engineering of complex communities by directed evolution. bioRxiv doi.org/10.1101/2020.07.24.214775

Estrela S, Vila JCC, Lu N, Bajic D, Rebolleda-Gomez M, Chang CY, and Sanchez A (2020) Metabolic rules of microbial community assembly. bioRxiv. doi.org/10.1101/2020.03.09.984278

Rodrigues AMM*, Estrela S* and Brown SP (2020) Community lifespan, niche expansion and the evolution of interspecific cooperation. bioRxiv. doi.org/10.1101/2020.01.02.893321

In press / published
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Sanchez A, Vila J, Chang C-Y, Diaz-Colunga J, Estrela S and Rebolleda-Gomez M (2020) Directed evolution of microbial communities. Annual Review of Biophysics (accepted) doi.org/10.32942/osf.io/gsz7j

Estrela S*, Libby E*, Van Cleve J*, Débarre F, Deforet M, Harcombe WR, Peña J, Brown SP and Hochberg ME (2019) Environmentally mediated social dilemmas. Trends in Ecology & Evolution
Goldford J*, Lu N*, Bajic D, Estrela S, Tikhonov M, Sanchez-Gorostiaga A, Segre D, Mehta P, and Sanchez A (2018) Emergent simplicity in microbial community assembly. Science 361:469-74

Estrela S and Brown SP (2018) Community interactions and spatial structure shape selection on antibiotic resistant lineages. PLoS Computational Biology 14(6): e1006179.
Estrela S, Kerr B, and Morris JJ (2016) Transitions in individuality through symbiosis.Current Opinion in Microbiology 31: 191–198

Estrela S, Morris JJ, and Kerr B (2015) Private benefits and metabolic conflicts shape the emergence of microbial interdependencies. Environmental Microbiology 18: 1415-1427

Estrela S, Whiteley M, and Brown SP (2015) The demographic determinants of human microbiome health. Trends in Microbiology  23(3): 134-141 [Open Access]

Estrela S and Brown SP (2013) Metabolic and demographic feedbacks shape the emergent spatial structure and function of microbial communities. PLoS Computational Biology 9(12): e1003398.

Estrela S, Trisos CH, and Brown SP (2012) From metabolism to ecology: cross-feeding interactions shape the balance between polymicrobial conflict and mutualism. The American Naturalist 180: 566-576 [Open Access]

Eswarappa SM, Estrela S, and Brown SP (2012) Within-host dynamics of multi-species infections: facilitation, competition and virulence. PLoS ONE 7(6): e38730.

​Garrido F, Estrela S, Alves C, Sanchez-Perez GF, Sillero A, and Pajares MA (2011) Refolding and characterization of methionine adenosyltransferase from Euglena gracilis.Protein Expr. Purif. 79(1): 128-136.

Estrela S and Gudelj I (2010) Evolution of cooperative cross-feeding could be less challenging than originally thought. PLoS ONE 5(11): e14121