The tragedy of the commons in microbial populations: insights from theoretical, comparative and experimental studies.

First principles of thermodynamics imply that metabolic pathways are faced with a trade-off between the rate and yield of ATP production. Simple evolutionary models argue that this trade-off generates a fundamental social conflict in microbial populations: average fitness in a population is highest...

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Hlavní autor: Maclean, C
Médium: Journal article
Jazyk:English
Vydáno: 2008