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Horizontal Gene Transfer and The Evolution of Bacterial Cooperation
Bacteria frequently exhibit cooperative behaviors but cooperative strains are vulnerable to invasion by cheater strains that reap the benefits of cooperation but do not perform the cooperative behavior themselves. Bacterial genomes often contain mobile genetic elements such as plasmids. When a gene...
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Blackwell Publishing Inc
2011
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3038327/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/20825481 http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1558-5646.2010.01121.x |