Published

  1. Gilbert, O.M. 2020. Natural reward drives the advancement of life. Rethinking Ecology 5: 1-35. (Highlighted on Phys.org, Eurakalerts, Unfold Times, FloridaNewsTimes, LaboratoryNewsUK, Reddit, and Evolution News)
  2. Gilbert, O.M. 2018. Altruism or association? Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America. 115:E3069-E3070 (comment on Wang and Lu 2018).
  3.  Gilbert, O. M. 2015. Microscale kin discrimination in a famous soil bacterium. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America. 112: 13757-8 (comment on Stefanic et al. 2015).
  4. Gilbert, O. M. 2015. Histocompatibility as adaptive response to discriminatory within-organism conflict: a historical model. American Naturalist. 185:2. 228-242.
  5. Gilbert, O. M. 2012. Kuzdzal-Fick, J. J., Queller, D.C., and Strassmann, J.E. Mind the gap: a comparative study of migratory behavior in social amoebae. Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology. 66:1291–1296.
  6. Gilbert, O. M. 2012. Strassmann, J.E, and Queller, D.C. High relatedness in a social amoeba: the role of kin-discriminatory segregation. Proceedings of the Royal Society B.  279: 2619-2624.
  7. Strassmann, J. E., Gilbert, O. M. and Queller, D. C. 2011. Kin discrimination and cooperation in microbes. Annual Review of  Ecology, Evolution, and Systematics. 65: 349-367.
  8. Gilbert, O. M., Queller, D. C., and Strassmann, J. E. 2009. Discovery of a large clonal patch of a social amoeba: implications for social evolution. Molecular Ecology. 18:6 1273-1281. (Yoon, C. Oozing through the Texas soil, a team of amoebae billions strong. The New York Times. March 24 edition [2007]; NPR radio, Science Daily; cited in Bourke, A. Principles of Social Evolution [2011] and The Wall Street Journal, March 10, 2014).
  9. Gilbert, O. M., Foster, K. R., Mehdiabadi, N. J., Strassmann J. E. and Queller, D. C. 2007. High relatedness maintains multicellular cooperation in a social amoeba by controlling cheater mutants. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America. 104:21, 8912-8917. (Goymer, P. Cheating gets you nowhere. Nature Reviews Genetics. 8.7 [2007]; Science Daily; cited in Bourke, A. Principles of Social Evolution [2011] and Krebs, Davies and West, An Introduction to Behavioral Ecology, 4th ed., pp. 310-311 [2012]).
  10. Gilbert, O. M. and Buskey, E. J. 2005. Turbulence decreases the hydrodynamic predator sensing ability of the calanoid copepod Acartia tonsa. Journal of Plankton Research. 27:10, 1067-1071.

In Prep

Gilbert, O.M. Disentangling Hamilton’s rule from inclusive fitness. (Theory; population-genetics foundation of social evolution)

Gilbert, O.M. How to test Hamilton’s rule. (Statistical and empirical framework for falsifiable kin-selection tests). 

Significant Preprints

  1. Gilbert, O.M. 2019. Natural reward as the fundamental macroevolutionary force. arXiv preprint arXiv:1903.09567 (downloaded by 40+ countries on Academia.edu. This was the initial manuscript and complements the article published in Rethinking Ecology).
  2.  Gilbert, O. M. 2017. Association theory: a new framework for analyzing social evolution. BioRxiv doi: https://doi.org/10.1101/197632. (this article put Gilbert’s [2015] model into general terms and reviewed the general evidence for its predictions).

Under Revision

How to reward innovation and encourage entrepreneurship in science (for Minerva).