| Bet-hedging during bacterial diauxic shift A Solopova, J van Gestel, FJ Weissing, H Bachmann, B Teusink, J Kok, ... Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 111 (20), 7427-7432, 2014 | 320 | 2014 |
| From cell differentiation to cell collectives: Bacillus subtilis uses division of labor to migrate J van Gestel, H Vlamakis, R Kolter PLoS biology 13 (4), e1002141, 2015 | 288 | 2015 |
| Density of founder cells affects spatial pattern formation and cooperation in Bacillus subtilis biofilms J van Gestel, FJ Weissing, OP Kuipers, AT Kovács The ISME journal 8 (10), 2069, 2014 | 276 | 2014 |
| Division of labor in biofilms: the ecology of cell differentiation J van Gestel, H Vlamakis, R Kolter Microbial Biofilms, 67-97, 2015 | 259 | 2015 |
| Short-range quorum sensing controls horizontal gene transfer at micron scale in bacterial communities J van Gestel, T Bareia, B Tenennbaum, A Dal Co, P Guler, N Aframian, ... Nature communications 12 (1), 2324, 2021 | 112 | 2021 |
| On the origin of biological construction, with a focus on multicellularity J van Gestel, CE Tarnita Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 114 (42), 11018-11026, 2017 | 101 | 2017 |
| Lineage tracing and single-nucleus multiomics reveal novel features of adaptive and maladaptive repair after acute kidney injury single-cell multiomics of AKI responses L Gerhardt, K Koppitch, J van Gestel, J Guo, S Cho, H Wu, Y Kirita, ... Journal of the American Society of Nephrology, 10.1681, 2023 | 88 | 2023 |
| Emergence of diverse life cycles and life histories at the origin of multicellularity M Staps, J van Gestel, CE Tarnita Nature ecology & evolution 3 (8), 1197-1205, 2019 | 76 | 2019 |
| Regulatory mechanisms link phenotypic plasticity to evolvability J van Gestel, FJ Weissing Scientific reports 6, 24524, 2016 | 63 | 2016 |
| The protective layer of biofilm: a repellent function for a new class of amphiphilic proteins ÁT Kovács, J van Gestel, OP Kuipers Molecular microbiology 85 (1), 8-11, 2012 | 54 | 2012 |
| PolyGlcNAc-containing exopolymers enable surface penetration by non-motile Enterococcus faecalis Y Ramos, J Rocha, AL Hael, J van Gestel, H Vlamakis, C Cywes-Bentley, ... PLOS Pathogens 15 (2), e1007571, 2019 | 45 | 2019 |
| Phenotypic heterogeneity and the evolution of bacterial life cycles J van Gestel, MA Nowak PLoS computational biology 12 (2), e1004764, 2016 | 42 | 2016 |
| Complex extracellular biology drives surface competition during colony expansion in Bacillus subtilis T Jautzus, J van Gestel, ÁT Kovács The ISME Journal 16 (10), 2320-2328, 2022 | 37 | 2022 |
| The evolution of cell-to-cell communication in a sporulating bacterium J van Gestel, MA Nowak, CE Tarnita PLoS computational biology 8 (12), e1002818, 2012 | 35 | 2012 |
| Is plasticity caused by single genes? J van Gestel, FJ Weissing Nature 555 (7698), E19, 2018 | 27 | 2018 |
| A riboswitch gives rise to multi-generational phenotypic heterogeneity in an auxotrophic bacterium JA Hernandez-Valdes, J van Gestel, OP Kuipers Nature communications 11 (1), 1203, 2020 | 25 | 2020 |
| Microbial life cycles link global modularity in regulation to mosaic evolution J van Gestel, M Ackermann, A Wagner Nature ecology & evolution 3 (8), 1184-1196, 2019 | 23 | 2019 |
| New tools for comparing microscopy images: a quantitative analysis of cell types in Bacillus subtilis. J van Gestel, H Vlamakis, R Kolter Journal of bacteriology, JB. 02501-14, 2014 | 19 | 2014 |
| Computational pipeline for designing guide RNAs for mismatch-CRISPRi J van Gestel, JS Hawkins, H Todor, CA Gross STAR Protocols 2 (2), 100521, 2021 | 14 | 2021 |
| When we stop thinking about microbes as cells J van Gestel, R Kolter Journal of Molecular Biology, 2019 | 13 | 2019 |
