Jos Kramer: Publications
Peer reviewed
2025
Kramer, J., Maréchal, S., Figueiredo, A., Kümmerli, R.: Strain identity effects contribute more to Pseudomonas community functioning than strain interactions. The ISME Journal, 19(1), wraf025 (2025).
doi:10.1093/ismejo/wraf025
2022
Figueiredo, A., Özkaya, Ö., Kümmerli, R., Kramer, J.: Siderophores drive invasion dynamics in bacterial communities through their dual role as public good versus public bad. Ecology Letters, 25(1), 138-150 (2022).
doi:10.1111/ele.13912
2021
Kramer, J., Kümmerli, R.: Division of Labour : Losing out to improve group fitness. eLife, 10 (2021).
doi:10.7554/eLife.75243
Butaitė, E., Kramer, J., Kümmerli, R.: Local adaptation, geographical distance and phylogenetic relatedness : Assessing the drivers of siderophore-mediated social interactions in natural bacterial communities. Journal of Evolutionary Biology, 34(8), 1266-1278 (2021).
doi:10.1111/jeb.13883
2020
Kramer, J., Özkaya, Ö., Kümmerli, R.: Bacterial siderophores in community and host interactions. Nature Reviews Microbiology, 18(3), 152-163 (2020).
doi:10.1038/s41579-019-0284-4
Gu, S., Wei, Z., Shao, Z., Friman, V., Cao, K., Yang, T., Kramer, J., Wang, X., Li, M., Mei, X., Xu, Y., Shen, Q., Kümmerli, R., Jousset, A.: Competition for iron drives phytopathogen control by natural rhizosphere microbiomes. Nature Microbiology, 5(8), 1002-1010 (2020).
doi:10.1038/s41564-020-0719-8
Figueiredo, A., Kramer, J.: Cooperation and conflict within the microbiota and their effects on animal hosts. Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution, 8, 1-15 (2020).
doi:10.3389/fevo.2020.00132
Kramer, J., López Carrasco, M., Kümmerli, R.: Positive linkage between bacterial social traits reveals that homogeneous rather than specialised behavioral repertoires prevail in natural Pseudomonas communities. FEMS Microbiology Ecology, 96(1), fiz185 (2020).
doi:10.1093/femsec/fiz185
2019
Kramer, J., Meunier, J.: The other facets of family life and their role in the evolution of animal sociality. Biological Reviews, 94(1), 199-215 (2019).
doi:10.1111/brv.12443
2018
Butaitė, E., Kramer, J., Wyder, S., Kümmerli, R.: Environmental determinants of pyoverdine production, exploitation and competition in natural Pseudomonas communities. Environmental Microbiology, 20(10), 3629-3642 (2018).
doi:10.1111/1462-2920.14355
2017
Kramer, J., Körner, M., Diehl, J., Scheiner, C., Yüksel‐Dadak, A., Christl, T., Kohlmeier, P., Meunier, J.: When earwig mothers do not care to share : Parent–offspring competition and the evolution of family life. Functional Ecology, 31(11), 2098-2107 (2017).
doi:10.1111/1365-2435.12915
2016
Kramer, J., Meunier, J.: Kin and multilevel selection in social evolution : a never-ending controversy?. F1000Research, 5 (2016).
doi:10.12688/f1000research.8018.1
Kramer, J., Meunier, J.: Maternal condition determines offspring behavior toward family members in the European earwig. Behavioral Ecology, 27(2), 494-500 (2016).
doi:10.1093/beheco/arv181
Kramer, J., Klauke, N., Bauer, M., Schaefer, H.: No Evidence for Enforced Alloparental Care in a Cooperatively Breeding Parrot. Ethology, 122(5), 389-398 (2016).
doi:10.1111/eth.12486
Ratz, T., Kramer, J., Veuille, M., Meunier, J.: The population determines whether and how life-history traits vary between reproductive events in an insect with maternal care. Oecologia, 182(2), 443-452 (2016).
doi:10.1007/s00442-016-3685-3
2015
Kramer, J., Thesing, J., Meunier, J.: Negative association between parental care and sibling cooperation in earwigs : a new perspective on the early evolution of family life?. Journal of Evolutionary Biology, 28(7), 1299-1308 (2015).
doi:10.1111/jeb.12655
Thesing, J., Kramer, J., Koch, L., Meunier, J.: Short-term benefits, but transgenerational costs of maternal loss in an insect with facultative maternal care. Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences, 282(1817), 20151617 (2015).
doi:10.1098/rspb.2015.1617
2014
Klauke, N., Jansen, J., Kramer, J., Schaefer, H.: Food allocation rules vary with age and experience in a cooperatively breeding parrot. Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology, 68(6), 1037-1047 (2014).
doi:10.1007/s00265-014-1716-9
Weiß, C., Kramer, J., Holländer, K., Meunier, J.: Influences of Relatedness, Food Deprivation, and Sex on Adult Behaviors in the Group-living Insect Forficula auricularia. Ethology, 120(9), 923-932 (2014).
doi:10.1111/eth.12261
Books and Book sections
2022
Meunier, J., Körner, M., Kramer, J.: Parental care. In: Omkar, Geetanjali Mishra (eds.): Reproductive Strategies in Insects. - Boca Raton : CRC Press, 2022. - 337-357.