Wider access to genotypic space facilitates loss of cooperation in a bacterial mutator

Understanding the ecological, evolutionary and genetic factors that affect the expression of cooperative behaviours is a topic of wide biological significance. On a practical level, this field of research is useful because many pathogenic microbes rely on the cooperative production of public goods (...

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Main Authors: Harrison, F, Buckling, A
Format: Journal article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science 2011
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