Nutrient status shapes selfish mitochondrial genome dynamics across different levels of selection
Cooperation and cheating are widespread evolutionary strategies. While cheating confers an advantage to individual entities within a group, competition between groups favors cooperation. Selfish or cheater mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA) proliferates within hosts while being selected against at the level...
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eLife Sciences Publications Ltd
2020-09-01
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Online Access: | https://elifesciences.org/articles/56686 |