Cooperation: bridging ecology and sociobiology.
Ecology is considered central to the evolution of cooperation, but there is little direct evidence for this. New support for the idea has come from a study which shifted the path of evolution from cooperation to cheating in flasks of bacteria, simply by altering their disturbance regime.
Foster
Kevin R
KR
Center for Systems Biology, Harvard University, Bauer Laboratories, USA. kfoster@cgr.harvard.edu
Xavier
Joao B
JB
D000818:Animals; D018441:Biofilms / Q000254:growth & development*; D005075:Biological Evolution; D003299:Cooperative Behavior; D004463:Ecology; D004777:Environment; D008954:Models, Biological; D011551:Pseudomonas fluorescens / Q000254:growth & development*; D035503:Sociobiology