Shearing in flow environment promotes evolution of social behavior in microbial populations
How producers of public goods persist in microbial communities is a major question in evolutionary biology. Cooperation is evolutionarily unstable, since cheating strains can reproduce quicker and take over. Spatial structure has been shown to be a robust mechanism for the evolution of cooperation....
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eLife Sciences Publications Ltd
2018-05-01
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| Online Access: | https://elifesciences.org/articles/34862 |