Erol Akçay

The paper investigates how interactions between two public tasks influence the evolution of division of labor, showing that specialists can coexist only when tasks interact and that bistability and hysteresis can occur.

This study shows how group size, assortment, and payoff curvature influence the evolution of division of labor through public-good production.

The paper models predator group dynamics and prey population interactions, finding that flexible group sizes lead to smaller stable groups and unexpected resource partitioning between prey types.

The paper examines how host immune states influence microbial interactions in the stomach cancer microbiome, finding that immunosuppression promotes mutualism while inflammation favors competition, with clinical implications for patient outcomes.

This study models division of labor in species producing multiple public goods using adaptive dynamics, showing three potential evolutionary outcomes with varying fitness and payoff variance.

The paper uses phylogenetic analysis to show that both host and symbiont factors jointly control transmission mode in a grass-endophyte symbiosis.