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Privatisation rescues function following loss of cooperation
- Abstract:
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A single cheating mutant can lead to the invasion and eventual eradication of cooperation from a population. Consequently, cheat invasion is often considered equal to extinction in empirical and theoretical studies of cooperator-cheat dynamics. But does cheat invasion necessarily equate extinction in nature? By following the social dynamics of iron metabolism in Pseudomonas aeruginosa during cystic fibrosis lung infection, we observed that individuals evolved to replace cooperation with a ‘pr...
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- Publication status:
- Published
- Peer review status:
- Peer reviewed
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European Commission
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Bibliographic Details
- Publisher:
- eLife Sciences Publications Publisher's website
- Journal:
- eLife Journal website
- Volume:
- 7
- Article number:
- e38594
- Publication date:
- 2018-12-18
- Acceptance date:
- 2018-11-17
- DOI:
- ISSN:
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2050-084X
- Source identifiers:
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946074
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- Pubs id:
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pubs:946074
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- pubs:946074
- Deposit date:
- 2018-11-23
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- Copyright holder:
- Andersen et al
- Copyright date:
- 2018
- Notes:
- ©️ Copyright Andersen et al. This article is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use and redistribution provided that the original author and source are credited.
- Licence:
- CC Attribution (CC BY)
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