Sorcha McGinty

PhD Student, Institute of Evolutionary Biology and Environmental Studies, University of Zürich

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Institute Website can be found here.

Address: Building Y27, Institute of Evolutionary Biology and Environmental Studies, Universityof Zürich, Winterthurstrasse 190, 8057 Zürich, Switzerland

Research Interests

Social evolution in microbes

Publications

Mc Ginty, S.E. & Rankin, D.J. The evolution of conflict resolution between plasmids and their bacterial hosts. Evolution. Accepted for publication.

Rankin, D.J., Mc Ginty, S.E., Nogueira, T.,Touchon, M., Taddei, F., Rocha, E.P.C, & Brown, S.P. (2011) Bacterial cooperation controlled by mobile elements: kin selection and infectivity are part of the same process. [reply to Giraud & Shykoff] Heredity. 107: 279–281.

Mc Ginty, S.E., Rankin, D.J. & Brown, S.P. (2011) Horizontal gene transfer and the evolution of bacterial cooperation. Evolution. 65: 21-32.