William C. Ratcliff

William C. Ratcliff

Georgia Institute of Technology

H-index: 27

North America-United States

About William C. Ratcliff

William C. Ratcliff, With an exceptional h-index of 27 and a recent h-index of 23 (since 2020), a distinguished researcher at Georgia Institute of Technology, specializes in the field of multicellularity, social evolution, bet hedging, experiments and theory.

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

Morphological Entanglement in Living Systems

Emergence and maintenance of stable coexistence during a long-term multicellular evolution experiment

Whole-genome duplication in the Multicellularity Long Term Evolution Experiment

Proteostatic tuning underpins the evolution of novel multicellular traits

Constitutive expression of the Type VI Secretion System carries no measurable fitness cost in Vibrio cholerae

A nonadaptive explanation for macroevolutionary patterns in the evolution of complex multicellularity

Macroalgal deep genomics illuminate multiple paths to aquatic, photosynthetic multicellularity

Transforming yeast into a facultative photoheterotroph via expression of vacuolar rhodopsin

William C. Ratcliff Information

University

Position

Associate Professor

Citations(all)

2841

Citations(since 2020)

1855

Cited By

1657

hIndex(all)

27

hIndex(since 2020)

23

i10Index(all)

43

i10Index(since 2020)

36

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Georgia Institute of Technology

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William C. Ratcliff Skills & Research Interests

multicellularity

social evolution

bet hedging

experiments and theory

Top articles of William C. Ratcliff

Title

Journal

Author(s)

Publication Date

Morphological Entanglement in Living Systems

Physical Review X

Thomas C Day

S Alireza Zamani-Dahaj

G Ozan Bozdag

Anthony J Burnetti

Emma P Bingham

...

2024/1/25

Emergence and maintenance of stable coexistence during a long-term multicellular evolution experiment

Nature Ecology & Evolution

Rozenn M Pineau

Eric Libby

David Demory

Dung T Lac

Thomas C Day

...

2024/3/14

Whole-genome duplication in the Multicellularity Long Term Evolution Experiment

bioRxiv

Kai Tong

Sayantan Datta

Vivian Cheng

Daniella J Haas

Saranya Gourisetti

...

2024

Proteostatic tuning underpins the evolution of novel multicellular traits

Science Advances

Kristopher Montrose

Dung T Lac

Anthony J Burnetti

Kai Tong

G Ozan Bozdag

...

2024/3/8

Constitutive expression of the Type VI Secretion System carries no measurable fitness cost in Vibrio cholerae

bioRxiv

Christopher Zhang

William C Ratcliff

Brian K Hammer

2023

A nonadaptive explanation for macroevolutionary patterns in the evolution of complex multicellularity

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences

Emma P Bingham

William C Ratcliff

2024/2/13

Macroalgal deep genomics illuminate multiple paths to aquatic, photosynthetic multicellularity

Molecular Plant

David R Nelson

Alexandra Mystikou

Ashish Jaiswal

Cecilia Rad-Menendez

Michael J Preston

...

2024/4/9

Transforming yeast into a facultative photoheterotroph via expression of vacuolar rhodopsin

Current Biology

Autumn Peterson

Carina Baskett

William C Ratcliff

Anthony Burnetti

2024/2/5

Research Briefing: Multicellularity drives ecological diversity in a long-term evolution experiment

Nature Ecology and Evolution

Rozenn M Pineau

William C Ratcliff

2024/3/22

The science of storytelling: the David Attenborough style of scientific presentation

William C Ratcliff

2023/9/1

Spontaneous emergence of multicellular heritability

Genes

Seyed Alireza Zamani-Dahaj

Anthony Burnetti

Thomas C Day

Peter J Yunker

William C Ratcliff

...

2023/8/17

De novo evolution of macroscopic multicellularity

Nature

G Ozan Bozdag

Seyed Alireza Zamani-Dahaj

Thomas C Day

Penelope C Kahn

Anthony J Burnetti

...

2023/5/25

Trade-offs constrain adaptive pathways to type VI secretion system survival

Iscience

Kathryn A MacGillivray

Siu Lung Ng

Sophia Wiesenfeld

Randi L Guest

Tahrima Jubery

...

2023/12/15

Evolution: Understanding the origins of facultative multicellular life cycles

Current Biology

Peter L Conlin

William C Ratcliff

2023/5/8

Experimental evolution of multicellularity via cuboidal cell packing in fission yeast

bioRxiv

Rozenn M Pineau

Penelope C Kahn

Dung T Lac

Mia Denning

Whitney Wong

...

2023/11/5

Examining the role of oxygen-binding proteins on the early evolution of multicellularity

bioRxiv

Whitney Wong

Pablo Bravo

Peter J Yunker

William C Ratcliff

Anthony J Burnetti

2023

Evolutionary consequences of nascent multicellular life cycles

Elife

Jennifer T Pentz

Kathryn MacGillivray

James G DuBose

Peter L Conlin

Emma Reinhardt

...

2023/10/27

Division of labor promotes the entrenchment of multicellularity

bioRxiv

Peter L Conlin

Heather J Goldsby

Eric Libby

Katherine G Skocelas

William C Ratcliff

...

2023

The biological robots are coming! But note they have been here for∼ 3.5 billion years

William C Ratcliff

2022/2/1

Aggregation in the Presence of Extracellular Polymers Could Mediate Co-existence in Otherwise Incompatible Bacterial Species

The Astrobiology Science Conference (AbSciCon) 2022

Christopher Zhang

Brian Hammer

William C Ratcliff

2022/5

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Co-Authors

H-index: 62
Joshua S Weitz

Joshua S Weitz

Georgia Institute of Technology

H-index: 51
Sam Brown

Sam Brown

Georgia Institute of Technology

H-index: 46
R Ford Denison

R Ford Denison

University of Minnesota-Twin Cities

H-index: 41
Jacob Thomas

Jacob Thomas

King Saud University

H-index: 41
Michael Travisano

Michael Travisano

University of Minnesota-Twin Cities

H-index: 27
Brian Hammer

Brian Hammer

Georgia Institute of Technology

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