title: Evolution: 'snowed' in with the enemy.
abstract: Explaining the origins and maintenance of cooperation in nature is a key challenge in evolutionary biology. A recent study demonstrates two novel mechanisms through which the natural ecology of sinking ocean aggregates--colloquially called 'marine snow' - promotes cooperation.
authors.affiliation: Computational and Systems Biology Graduate Program, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 77 Massachusetts Avenue, Bldg. 13-2008, Cambridge, MA 02139, USA.
authors.forename: Manoshi Sen
authors.initials: MS
authors.lastname: Datta
authors.affiliation: Department of Physics, MIT Center for Physics of Living Systems, Computational and Systems Biology Graduate Program, Microbiology Graduate Program, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 77 Massachusetts Avenue, Bldg. 13-2008, Cambridge, MA 02139, USA. Electronic address: gore@mit.edu.
authors.forename: Jeff
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Gore
mesh_terms: D018441:Biofilms; D014734:Vibrio cholerae / Q000502:physiology*