Allopatric divergence of cooperators confers cheating resistance and limits effects of a defector mutation
Abstract Background Social defectors may meet diverse cooperators. Genotype-by-genotype interactions may constrain the ranges of cooperators upon which particular defectors can cheat, limiting cheater spread. Upon starvation, the soil bacterium Myxococcus xanthus cooperatively develops into spore-be...
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| Format: | Article |
| Language: | English |
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BMC
2022-12-01
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| Series: | BMC Ecology and Evolution |
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| Online Access: | https://doi.org/10.1186/s12862-022-02094-7 |