Journal article
Repression of competition favours cooperation: experimental evidence from bacteria.
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Repression of competition (RC) within social groups has been suggested as a key mechanism driving the evolution of cooperation, because it aligns the individual's proximate interest with the interest of the group. Despite its enormous potential for explaining cooperation across all levels of biological organization, ranging from fair meiosis, to policing in insect societies, to sanctions in mutualistic interactions between species, there has been no direct experimental test of whether RC favo...
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- Publication status:
- Published
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- Journal:
- Journal of evolutionary biology
- Volume:
- 23
- Issue:
- 4
- Pages:
- 699-706
- Publication date:
- 2010-04-01
- DOI:
- EISSN:
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1420-9101
- ISSN:
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1010-061X
- Source identifiers:
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210318
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- English
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- Pubs id:
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pubs:210318
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- pubs:210318
- Deposit date:
- 2012-12-19
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- 2010
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