Christian Kost

About Christian Kost

Christian Kost, With an exceptional h-index of 33 and a recent h-index of 28 (since 2020), a distinguished researcher at Universität Osnabrück, specializes in the field of Evolution of cooperation, bacterial individuality, experimental evolution.

His recent articles reflect a diverse array of research interests and contributions to the field:

What do you most want to understand about how collective features emerge in microbial communities?

Metabolic exchanges are ubiquitous in natural microbial communities

Determinants of synergistic cell-cell interactions in bacteria

Prevalent emergence of reciprocity among cross-feeding bacteria

Dispersal between interconnected patches can reduce the total population size

Predation increases prey fitness via transgenerational priming

McComedy: A user-friendly tool for next-generation individual-based modeling of microbial consumer-resource systems

Obligate mutualistic cooperation limits evolvability

Christian Kost Information

University

Position

Department of Ecology

Citations(all)

5925

Citations(since 2020)

2897

Cited By

4194

hIndex(all)

33

hIndex(since 2020)

28

i10Index(all)

45

i10Index(since 2020)

41

Email

University Profile Page

Google Scholar

Christian Kost Skills & Research Interests

Evolution of cooperation

bacterial individuality

experimental evolution

Top articles of Christian Kost

What do you most want to understand about how collective features emerge in microbial communities?

Cell Systems

2023/2/15

Metabolic exchanges are ubiquitous in natural microbial communities

2023/12

Determinants of synergistic cell-cell interactions in bacteria

2023/4/25

Christian Kost
Christian Kost

H-Index: 26

Prevalent emergence of reciprocity among cross-feeding bacteria

ISME communications

2022/12

Dispersal between interconnected patches can reduce the total population size

bioRxiv

2022/1/1

Christian Kost
Christian Kost

H-Index: 26

Predation increases prey fitness via transgenerational priming

bioRxiv

2022/3/13

Christian Kost
Christian Kost

H-Index: 26

McComedy: A user-friendly tool for next-generation individual-based modeling of microbial consumer-resource systems

PLoS Computational Biology

2022/1/24

Christian Kost
Christian Kost

H-Index: 26

Obligate mutualistic cooperation limits evolvability

Nature Communications

2022/1/17

Leonardo Oña
Leonardo Oña

H-Index: 6

Christian Kost
Christian Kost

H-Index: 26

Evolution of metabolic cooperation within microbial communities

2022

Christian Kost
Christian Kost

H-Index: 26

Cooperation increases robustness to ecological disturbance in microbial cross-feeding networks

Ecology Letters

2022/4/5

Leonardo Oña
Leonardo Oña

H-Index: 6

Christian Kost
Christian Kost

H-Index: 26

Metabolic dissimilarity determines the establishment of cross-feeding interactions in bacteria

Current Biology

2021/12/20

Obligate cross-feeding expands the metabolic niche of bacteria

Nature Ecology & Evolution

2021/9

Synergistic coevolution accelerates genome evolution

BioRxiv

2021/5/21

Christian Kost
Christian Kost

H-Index: 26

Journal Club

BIOspektrum

2021/5/1

Christian Kost
Christian Kost

H-Index: 26

Hanna Klimek
Hanna Klimek

H-Index: 5

Reciprocal fitness feedbacks promote the evolution of mutualistic cooperation

Current Biology

2020/9/21

Samir Giri
Samir Giri

H-Index: 4

Christian Kost
Christian Kost

H-Index: 26

Evolution: predictable patterns of symbiont cointegration

2020/5/18

Christian Kost
Christian Kost

H-Index: 26

Harnessing ecological and evolutionary principles to guide the design of microbial production consortia

2020/4/1

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