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Exploitative and hierarchical antagonism in a cooperative bacterium.

PLoS biology - 1 Nov 2005

Fiegna Francesca, Velicer Gregory J

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Social organisms that cooperate with some members of their own species, such as close relatives, may fail to cooperate with other genotypes of the same species. Such noncooperation may take the form of outright antagonism or social exploitation. Myxococcus xanthus is a highly social prokaryote th...

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PMID: 16248676
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pbio.0030370
PMCID: PMC1275521

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