Publications

1. Cooper, V.S. 2007. Experimental evolution of pathogens. In: Encyclopedia of Infectious Disease, Michel Tibayrenc, editor. Wiley, New York.
2. Cooper, V. S. 2006. The study of microbial adaptation by long-term experimental evolution. In: The Evolution of Microbial Pathogens, Hank Seifert and Victor DiRita, editors. ASM Press.
3. Cooper, V.S. and J.J. LiPuma. 2005. Liquid C. elegans culture for the study of Burkholderia pathogenesis. 10th Annual Meeting, International Burkholderia cepacia Working Group. Oklahoma City, OK.
4. Cooper, V.S., E. O. Romero, and J.J. LiPuma. VNTR-based typing of Burkholderia cenocepacia. 9th Annual Meeting, International Burkholderia cepacia Working Group. 2004. Vancouver, B.C..
5. Cooper, V. S. Long-term experimental evolution in Escherichia coli. 2002. X. Quantifying the fundamental and realized niche. BMC Evolutionary Biology 2(12):1-9.
6. Cooper, V. S., M. H. Reiskind, J. A. Miller, K. A. Shelton, B. A. Walther, J. S. Elkinton, and P. W. Ewald. 2002. Timing of transmission and the evolution of virulence of an insect virus. Proc. Roy Soc. Lond. B, 269:1161-1165.
7. Cooper, V. S., A. F. Bennett and R. E. Lenski. 2001. Evolution of thermal performance of Escherichia coli populations during 20,000 generations in a constant environment. Evolution 55(5):889-896.
8. Cooper, V. S., D. Schneider, M. Blot, and R. E. Lenski. 2001. Mechanisms causing rapid and parallel losses of ribose catabolism in evolving populations of E. coli B. J. Bacteriology 183: 2834–2841.
9. Riley, M. S., V. S. Cooper, R. E. Lenski, L. J. Forney and T. L. Marsh. 2001. Rapid phenotypic radiation of a soil bacterium maintained for 1000 generations in a laboratory environment. Microbiology (UK) 147: 995-1006.
10. Cooper, V. S. and R. E. Lenski. 2000. The population genetics of ecological specialization in evolving Escherichia coli populations. Nature 407:736-739.
11. Turner, P. E., V. S. Cooper, & R. E. Lenski. 1998. Tradeoff between horizontal and vertical modes of transmission in bacterial plasmids. Evolution 52(2): 315-329.
12. Elena, S. F., V. S. Cooper, R. E. Lenski. 1996. Mechanisms of punctuated evolution (technical comment). Science 274:1748-1750.
13. Elena, S. F., V. S. Cooper, R. E. Lenski. 1996. Punctuated evolution caused by selection of rare beneficial mutations. Science 272:1802-1804.