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Impact of spatial distribution on the development of mutualism in microbes

The evolution of mutualism is one of the long-standing puzzles in evolutionary biology. Why would an individual contribute to the group at the expense of its own fitness? Individual bacterial cells cooperate by secreting products that are beneficial for the community, but costly to produce. It has b...

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Autor principal: Kovács, Ákos T.
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Frontiers Media S.A. 2014
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4241817/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/25505463
http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fmicb.2014.00649