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Pleiotropy and synergistic cooperation

Some forms of stable cooperation can evolve though pleiotropy with a beneficial private trait. This Formal Comment addresses a recent challenge to this idea, arguing that for synergistic, frequency-dependent cooperation, pleiotropy can raise the frequency up to a point where cooperation is favoured...

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Autor principal: Queller, David C.
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Public Library of Science 2019
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6588204/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/31226105
http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pbio.3000320
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spelling pubmed-65882042019-06-28 Pleiotropy and synergistic cooperation Queller, David C. PLoS Biol Formal Comment Some forms of stable cooperation can evolve though pleiotropy with a beneficial private trait. This Formal Comment addresses a recent challenge to this idea, arguing that for synergistic, frequency-dependent cooperation, pleiotropy can raise the frequency up to a point where cooperation is favoured on its own. Public Library of Science 2019-06-21 /pmc/articles/PMC6588204/ /pubmed/31226105 http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pbio.3000320 Text en © 2019 David C. Queller http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) , which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6588204/
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