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