A toxin-mediated policing system in Bacillus optimizes division of labor via penalizing cheater-like nonproducers
Division of labor, where subpopulations perform complementary tasks simultaneously within an assembly, characterizes major evolutionary transitions of cooperation in certain cases. Currently, the mechanism and significance of mediating the interaction between different cell types during the division...
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Language: | English |
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eLife Sciences Publications Ltd
2023-04-01
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Series: | eLife |
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Online Access: | https://elifesciences.org/articles/84743 |