Resource supply and the evolution of public-goods cooperation in bacteria.

BACKGROUND: Explaining public-goods cooperation is a challenge for evolutionary biology. However, cooperation is expected to more readily evolve if it imposes a smaller cost. Such costs of cooperation are expected to decline with increasing resource supply, an ecological parameter that varies widel...

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Principais autores: Brockhurst, M, Buckling, A, Racey, D, Gardner, A
Formato: Journal article
Idioma:English
Publicado em: BioMed Central 2008