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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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Autores principales: Mc Ginty, Sorcha E, Rankin, Daniel J, Brown, Sam P
Formato: Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: 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