Underlined Clark undergrad, * Clark ADP, ** Clark PhD, † corresponding author
Peer-reviewed
Petipas, R., Peru, Cassidy, Parks, JM, Friesen ML, †Jack CN. 2024. Prairie soil improves wheat establishment and accelerates the developmental transition to flowering compared to agricultural soils. Canadian Journal of Microbiology 70 (11), 482-491 *editor’s choice
Petipas, R. H., Higgins, S. A., Koechli, C., Debenport, S. J., Jack, CN., Geber, M. A., & Buckley, D. H. (2024). An exploration of how plant and soil characteristics shape the Hypericum perforatum microbiome in three habitats. Plant Ecology, 1-14.
O’Brien AE, Jack CN, Friesen, ML, Frederickson, ME. 2021. Whose trait is it anyways?: Coevolution of joint phenotypes and genetic architecture in mutualisms. Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences 288: 2020483
Jack CN, Petipas RH, Cheeke TE, Rowland JL, Friesen ML. 2020. Microbial Inoculants: Silver Bullet or Microbial Jurassic Park? Trends Microbiol. 2021 Apr;29(4):299-308. doi: 10.1016/j.tim.2020.11.006. Epub 2020 Dec 10. PMID: 33309525
Petipas RH, Bowsher A, Bekkerring C, Jack CN, Mclachlan E, White RA, Younginger BS, Tiemann LK, Evans SE, Friesen ML. 2020. Interactive effects of microbes and nitrogen on panicum virgatum root functional traits and patterns of phenotypic selection. International Journal of Plant Sciences 181(1)
Jack CN & Friesen ML. 2019. Rapid evolution of Medicago polymorpha during invasion shifts interactions with the Soybean looper. Ecology & Evolution 2019 Aug 16;9(18):10522-10533. doi: 10.1002/ece3.5572. PMID: 31632647; PMCID: PMC6787872
Jack CN, Rowe S, Porter SS, Friesen ML. 2019. High-throughput method of analyzing plant defensive compound production in minimized sample mass. Applications in Plant Science 7(1) e01210
Jack, CN, Wozniak K, Porter S, Friesen ML. Rhizobia provide Medicago polymorpha with phytoprotection against complex soil microbes. Rhizosphere 9:47-55
Jack CN, Sheheman L, Friesen ML, Hintze A. 2017. Third-party mutualists have contrasting effects on host invasion under the enemy-release and biotic-resistance hypotheses. Evolutionary Ecology 1-17
Jack CN, Buttery NJ, Adu-Oppong B, Powers M, Thompson CRL, Queller DC, Strassmann. 2015 Migration in the social stage of Dictyostelium discoideum amoebae impacts competition. PeerJ 3:e1352 https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.1352
Buttery NJ, Jack CN, Adu-Oppong B, Powers M, Queller DC, Strassmann JE. 2012. Structured growth and genetic drift raise relatedness in the social amoeba Dictyostelium discoideum. Biology Letters 8(4): 794-797
Jack CN, Adu-Oppong B, Powers M, Queller DC, Strassmann JE. 2011. Cost of movement in the multicellular stage of the social amoebae Dictyostelium discoideum and D. purpureum. Ethology, Ecology and Evolution 23(4): 358-367.
Jack CN, Ridgeway JG, Mehdiabadi NJ, Jones EI, Edwards TA, Queller DC, and Strassmann JE. Segregate or cooperate- a study of the interaction between two species of Dictyostelium. BMC Evolutionary Biology 8:293
Mehdiabadi NJ, Jack CN, Farnham TT, Platt TG, Kalla SE, Shaulsky G, Queller DC, and Strassmann JE. 2006. Kin preference in a social microbe. Nature 442: 881-882
Other publications
Chaudhary, VB, Kim S, Medina M, Srivastava D, Traylor-Knowles, N, Brito-Millan M, Camargo-Cely A, Chatterjee S, Chen N, Chen YH, Gotanda KM, Halsey SJ, Jack CN, McGuire RM, Miller CML, Moore AM, Noh S, Ong TW, Peralta AL, Ramirez LN, Romero-Olivares AL, Pulido-Barriga, MF, Sanchez KA, Sit CY, Su C, Vazquez-Cardona J, Venkataraman YR, Werner CM, Khadempour L. 2025. Protect US racial affinity groups. Science 387(6737):937; DOI: 10.1126/science.adq4733. *commentary
Strassmann, Joan E., Larsen, Tyler J., Jack, CN., Brock, Debra A., Queller, David C. 2022. Microstar: Dicty (Dictyostelium discoideum) Microstars: A child-centric microbiology education Framework