Publications
Clonality and non-linearity drive facultative-cooperation allele diversity
Ishay Ben-Zion, Shaul Pollak and Avigdor Eldar
Selection for increased quorum-sensing cooperation in Pseudomonas aeruginosa through the shut-down of a drug resistance pump
Ron D. Oshri+, Keren S. Zrihen+, Itzhak Shner, Shira Omer Bendori and Avigdor Eldar
Self-sensing in Bacillus subtilis quorum-sensing systems
Tasneem Bareia, Shaul Pollak, Avigdor Eldar
Transient Duplication-Dependent Divergence and Horizontal Transfer Underlie the Evolutionary Dynamics of Bacterial Cell–Cell Signaling
Eran Even-Tov, Shira Omer Bendori, Shaul Pollak, Avigdor Eldar
Social evolution selects for redundancy in bacterial quorum sensing
Eran Even-Tov, Shira Omer Bendori, Julie Valastyan, Xiaobo Ke, Shaul Pollak, Tasneem Bareia, Ishay Ben-Zion, Bonnie L. Bassler and Avigdor Eldar.
Facultative cheating supports the co-existence of multiple quorum-sensing pherotypes
Shaul Pollak, Shira Omer Bendori, Eran Even-Tov, Valeria Lipsman, Tasneem Bareia, Ishay Ben-Zion, Avigdor Eldar.
Proceedings of the National Academy of Science, 113(8):2152-7 (2016) Download
(See also a commentary on this work by Pérez-Escudero and Gore on the same journal issue)
A complex path for domestication of B. subtilis sociality
Shaul Pollak, Shira Omer Bendori, Avigdor Eldar
The RapP-PhrP quorum sensing system of Bacillus subtilis strain NCIB3610 affect biofilm formation through multiple targets, due to an atypical signal-insensitive allele of RapP
Bendori Omer Shira, Pollak Shaul, Hizi Dorit, Eldar Avigdor.
From Dusk till Dawn: One-Plasmid Systems for Light-Regulated Gene Expression
Ohlendorf, R., R. Vidavski, Eldar A, Moffat K, Möglich A.
Macromotives and microbehaviors: the social dimension of bacterial phenotypic variability
Peter Reuven and Avigdor Eldar (Review)
Current Opinion in Genetics & Development, 21 (6): 759-767 (2011) Download
Social conflict drives the evolutionary divergence of quorum sensing
Avigdor Eldar.
Proceedings of the National Academy of Science, 108 (33): 13635-13640 (2011) Download