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Stuart West

Zoology, Oxford
Verified email at zoo.ox.ac.uk
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Social semantics: altruism, cooperation, mutualism, strong reciprocity and group selection

SA West, AS Griffin, A Gardner - Journal of evolutionary biology, 2007 - academic.oup.com
From an evolutionary perspective, social behaviours are those which have fitness consequences
for both the individual that performs the behaviour, and another individual. Over the last …

[HTML][HTML] Evolutionary explanations for cooperation

SA West, AS Griffin, A Gardner - Current biology, 2007 - cell.com
Natural selection favours genes that increase an organism's ability to survive and reproduce.
This would appear to lead to a world dominated by selfish behaviour. However, …

Social evolution theory for microorganisms

SA West, AS Griffin, A Gardner, SP Diggle - Nature reviews microbiology, 2006 - nature.com
Microorganisms communicate and cooperate to perform a wide range of multicellular
behaviours, such as dispersal, nutrient acquisition, biofilm formation and quorum sensing. …

[BOOK][B] An introduction to behavioural ecology

NB Davies, JR Krebs, SA West - 2012 - books.google.com
… in a south-west direction to winter in the western Mediterranean region. During the past 40
years a new migration habit has evolved, with some blackcaps migrating west to Britain; F1 …

Reciprocal rewards stabilize cooperation in the mycorrhizal symbiosis

…, MM Hart, A Bago, TM Palmer, SA West… - science, 2011 - science.org
Plants and their arbuscular mycorrhizal fungal symbionts interact in complex underground
networks involving multiple partners. This increases the potential for exploitation and …

Cooperation and competition in pathogenic bacteria

AS Griffin, SA West, A Buckling - Nature, 2004 - nature.com
Explaining altruistic cooperation is one of the greatest challenges for evolutionary biology 1
, 2 , 3 . One solution to this problem is if costly cooperative behaviours are directed towards …

Host sanctions and the legume–rhizobium mutualism

ET Kiers, RA Rousseau, SA West, RF Denison - Nature, 2003 - nature.com
Explaining mutualistic cooperation between species remains one of the greatest problems
for evolutionary biology 1 , 2 , 3 , 4 . Why do symbionts provide costly services to a host, …

Cooperation and conflict in quorum-sensing bacterial populations

SP Diggle, AS Griffin, GS Campbell, SA West - Nature, 2007 - nature.com
It has been suggested that bacterial cells communicate by releasing and sensing small
diffusible signal molecules in a process commonly known as quorum sensing (QS) 1 , 2 , 3 , 4 . It …

Cooperation and competition between relatives

SA West, I Pen, AS Griffin - Science, 2002 - science.org
Individuals are predicted to behave more altruistically and less competitively toward their
relatives, because they share a relatively high proportion of their genes (eg, one-half for …

Serial CSF corticotropin-releasing hormone levels and adrenocortical activity in combat veterans with posttraumatic stress disorder

DG Baker, SA West, WE Nicholson… - American Journal of …, 1999 - Am Psychiatric Assoc
OBJECTIVE: The authors sought to carefully test, by using a technique of continuous CSF
sampling, the hypothesis that basal elevations in CSF corticotropin-releasing hormone (CRH) …