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Metabolism and the Evolution of Social Behavior
2017
Molecular biology and evolution
How does metabolism influence social behavior? This fundamental question at the interface of molecular biology and social evolution is hard to address with experiments in animals, and therefore, we turned to a simple microbial system: swarming in the bacterium Pseudomonas aeruginosa. Using genetic engineering, we excised a locus encoding a key metabolic regulator and disrupted P. aeruginosa's metabolic prudence, the regulatory mechanism that controls expression of swarming public goods and
doi:10.1093/molbev/msx174
pmid:28595344
pmcid:PMC5850603
fatcat:h2xx6s4muvbzflxe65ezsvmac4