Social evolution: this microbe will self-destruct.
Phenotypic noise and social evolution in microbes have recently attracted huge interdisciplinary interest. A new study highlights the interaction between these phenomena and its implications for self-destructive cooperation.
Gardner
Andy
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Institute of Evolutionary Biology, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh EH9 3JT, UK. andy.gardner@ed.ac.uk
Kümmerli
Rolf
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D000818:Animals; D005075:Biological Evolution; D051379:Mice; D010641:Phenotype; D012486:Salmonella typhimurium / Q000235:genetics*; D012641:Selection, Genetic