Spatial Structure Facilitates Cooperation in a Social Dilemma: Empirical Evidence from a Bacterial Community

Cooperative organisms are ubiquitous in nature, despite their vulnerability to exploitation by cheaters. Although numerous theoretical studies suggest that spatial structure is critical for cooperation to persist, the spatial ecology of microbial cooperation remains largely unexplored experimentally...

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Autores principales: Hol, Felix J. H., Galajda, Peter, Nagy, Krisztina, Woolthuis, Rutger G., Dekker, Cees, Keymer, Juan E.
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Public Library of Science 2013
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Research Article
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3805552/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/24167557
http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0077042

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https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3805552/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/24167557
http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0077042

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