Earlier timing of seasonal respiratory infections and seasonal mortality during the COVID-19 pandemic
M Sieber, A Traulsen
medRxiv, preprint (2024)
 

Gut-associated functions are favored during microbiome assembly across C. elegans life
J Zimmermann, A Piecyk, M Sieber, C Petersen, J Johnke, L Moitinho-Silva, S Künzel, L Bluhm, A Traulsen, C Kaleta, H Schulenburg
mBio, 15:e00012-24 (2024)
 

Suboptimal environmental conditions prolong phage epidemics in bacterial populations
H Goehlich, O Roth, M Sieber, CM Chibani, A Poehlein, J Rajkov, H Liesegang, CC Wendling
Molecular Ecology, 33:e17050 (2024)
 

The microbiome of the marine flatworm Macrostomum lignano provides fitness advantages and exhibits circadian rhythmicity
Y Ma, J He, M Sieber, J v Frieling, I Bruchhaus, JF Baines, U Bickmeyer, T Roeder
Communications Biology, 6:289 (2023)
 

Higher phage virulence accelerates the evolution of host resistance
CC Wendling, J Lange, H Liesegang, M Sieber, A Poehlein, B Bunk, J Rajkov, H Goehlich, O Roth, MA Brockhurst
Proceedings of the Royal Society B 289:20221070 (2022)
 

On the effect of inheritance of microbes in commensal microbiomes
R Zapién-Campos, F Bansept, M Sieber, A Traulsen
BMC Ecology and Evolution 22:75 (2022)
 

Dynamic proteome allocation regulates the profile of interaction of auxotrophic bacterial consortia
D Reyes-González, H De Luna-Valenciano, J Utrilla, M Sieber, R Peña-Miller, A Fuentes-Hernández
Royal Society Open Science 9:212008 (2022)
 

The effect of microbial selection on the occurrence-abundance patterns of microbiomes
R Zapién-Campos, M Sieber, A Traulsen
Journal of the Royal Society Interface 19:20210717 (2022)
 

Evolutionary ecology theory: Microbial population structure
A Traulsen, M Sieber
Current Opinion in Microbiology 63:216-220 (2021)

Evolution of microbiota-host associations: the microbe's perspective
N Obeng, F Bansept, M Sieber, A Traulsen, H Schulenburg
Trends in Microbiology 29:779-787 (2021)
 

On the evolutionary origins of host-microbe associations
M Sieber, A Traulsen, H Schulenburg, AE Douglas
PNAS 118:e2016487118 (2021)
 

Stochastic colonization of hosts with a finite lifespan can drive individual host microbes out of equilibrium
R Zapién-Campos, M Sieber, A Traulsen
PLoS Computational Biology 16:e1008392 (2020)
 

Bacteriophage can promote the emergence of physiologically sub-optimal host phenotypes
H Schenk, M Sieber
bioRxiv, preprint (2019)

Neutrality in the Metaorganism
M Sieber, L Pita, N Weiland-Bräuer, P Dirksen, J Wang, B Mortzfeld, S Franzenburg, RA Schmitz, JF Baines, S Fraune, U Hentschel, H Schulenburg, TCG Bosch, A Traulsen
PLoS Biology 17:e3000298 (2019)
 

Functions of the microbiota for the physiology of animal metaorganisms
D Esser, J Lange, G Marinos, M Sieber, L Best, D Prasse, J Bathia, M Rühlemann, K Boersch, C Jaspers, F Sommer
Journal of Innate Immunity 11:393-404 (2019)
 

One man's trash is another man's treasure - the effect of bacteria on phytoplankton-zooplankton interactions in chemostat systems
M Raatz, S Schälicke, M Sieber, A Wacker, U Gaedke
Limnology and Oceanography: Methods 16:629-639 (2018)
 

Temperate phages as self-replicating weapons in bacterial competition
XY Li, T Lachnit, S Fraune, TCG Bosch, A Traulsen, M Sieber
Journal of the Royal Society Interface 14:20170563 (2017)
 

Eco-evolutionary dynamics in a coevolving host-virus system
J Frickel, M Sieber, L Becks
Ecology Letters 19:450-459 (2016)
 

Do-or-die life cycles and diverse post-infection resistance mechanisms limit the evolution of parasite host ranges
M Sieber, I Gudelj
Ecology Letters 17:491-498 (2014)
 

Dispersal network structure and infection mechanism shape diversity in a coevolutionary bacteria-phage system
M Sieber, M Robb, SE Forde, I Gudelj
The ISME Journal 8:504-514 (2014)
 

Disease-induced modification of prey competition in eco-epidemiological models
M Sieber, H Malchow, FM Hilker
Ecological Complexity 18:74-82 (2014)
 

The hydra effect in predator-prey models
M Sieber, FM Hilker
Journal of Mathematical Biology 64:341-360 (2012)
 

Prey, predators, parasites: intraguild predation or simpler community modules in disguise?
M Sieber, FM Hilker
Journal of Animal Ecology 80:414-421 (2011)
 

Partial differential equations
M Sieber, H Malchow
In Modelling complex ecological dynamics. Jopp, Reuter, Breckling (Eds.), Springer-Verlag (2011)

Noise can prevent onset of chaos in spatiotemporal population dynamics
SV Petrovskii, A Morozov, H Malchow, M Sieber
European Physical Journal B 78:253-264 (2010)
 

Oscillations vs. chaotic waves: Attractor selection in bistable stochastic reaction-diffusion systems
M Sieber, H Malchow
European Physical Journal Special Topics 187:95-99 (2010)
 

Noise-induced suppression of periodic travelling waves in oscillatory reaction-diffusion systems
M Sieber, H Malchow, SV Petrovskii
Proceedings of the Royal Society A 466:1903-1917 (2010)
 

Constructive effects of environmental noise in an excitable prey-predator plankton system with infected prey
M Sieber, H Malchow, L Schimansky-Geier
Ecological Complexity 4:223-233 (2007)