Fitness correlates with the extent of cheating in a bacterium.
There is growing awareness of the importance of cooperative behaviours in microbial communities. Empirical support for this insight comes from experiments using mutant strains, termed 'cheats', which exploit the cooperative behaviour of wild-type strains. However, little detailed work has...
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| Format: | Journal article |
| Language: | English |
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2010
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