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Intercellular positive-feedback loops promote the evolutionary stability of microbial cooperative behaviors
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2019
bioRxiv
pre-print
Microbial cooperation enables groups of conspecific cells to perform tasks that cannot be performed efficiently by individual cells, such as utilization of various secreted ′public-good′ molecules, communication via quorum-sensing, or the formation of multicellular structures. Cooperation is often costly and therefore susceptible to exploitation by ′cheater′ cells, which enjoy the benefit of cooperation without investing in it. While population structure is key to the maintenance of
doi:10.1101/571562
fatcat:i5kbwqclobdwbelq3jinetzeoa