Lead-author papers
Schaal K. A., La Fortezza M., Velicer G. J. (2025) Predation, evo-devo, and historical contingency: A nematode predator drives evolution of aggregative multicellularity. BioRxiv. https://doi.org/10.1101/2025.05.04.652091.
Schaal K. A.*, Manhes P.*, Velicer G. J. (2025) Ecological histories govern social exploitation by microorganisms. The ISME Journal. https://doi.org/10.1093/ismejo/wrae255.
*These authors contributed equally to this work.
Schaal K. A., Yu Y. T. N., Vasse M., Velicer G. J. (2022) Allopatric divergence of cooperators confers cheating resistance and limits effects of a defector mutation. BMC Ecology and Evolution. https://doi.org/10.1186/s12862-022-02094-7.
Manhes P.*, Schaal K. A.*, Velicer G. J. (2022) Antagonistic, synergistic, and social pleiotropy in microbial cheaters. BioRxiv. preprint: https://doi.org/10.1101/2022.08.11.503674.
*These authors contributed equally to this work.
Last-author papers
Mayrhofer N., Velicer G. J., Schaal K. A.*, Vasse M.* (2021) Behavioral interactions between bacterivorous nematodes and predatory bacteria in a synthetic community. Microorganisms. https://doi.org/10.3390/microorganisms9071362. *These authors contributed equally to this work.
Special Issue Myxobacteria: Physiology and Regulation, edited by Dr. David Whitworth
Reviews
Allen W. L.,… Schaal K. A.… Kikuchi D. W., Exnerová A. (2023) The evolution and ecology of multiple antipredator defences. The Journal of Evolutionary Biology. https://doi.org/10.1111/jeb.14192.
Schaal K. A. (2022) Microbial models for the evolution of predator-prey interactions. preprint: https://doi.org/10.20944/preprints202205.0179.v1.
Book chapters
La Fortezza M., Schaal K. A., Velicer G. J. (2022) Group Formation: On the Evolution of Aggregative Multicellularity. Chapter 6 in Herron MD, Conlin PL, and Ratcliff WC eds. The Evolution of Multicellularity. CRC Press, Boca Raton, FL. https://doi.org/10.1201/9780429351907-8 (paywall). preprint: http://dx.doi.org/10.20944/preprints202105.0451.v1