Social evolution: slimy cheats pay a price.
Variation in the routes to social success has led to the designation of 'cheats' and 'cooperators', but new work shows that selection on non-social traits can give the illusion of social cheating in the social amoeba Dictyostelium discoideum.
Department of Biosciences, University of Exeter, Penryn Campus, Cornwall TR10 9FE, UK; Department of Biology, University of York, York, YO10 5DD, UK.
Siobhan
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O'Brien
Department of Biology, University of York, York, YO10 5DD, UK. Electronic address: michael.brockhurst@york.ac.uk.
Michael A
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Brockhurst
D000220:Adaptation, Biological / Q000235:genetics*; D005075:Biological Evolution; D056084:Genetic Fitness / Q000235:genetics*; D033761:Spores, Protozoan / Q000254:growth & development*