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High relatedness maintains multicellular cooperation in a social amoeba by controlling cheater mutants.

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America - 22 May 2007

Gilbert Owen M, Foster Kevin R, Mehdiabadi Natasha J, Strassmann Joan E, Queller David C

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The control of cheating is important for understanding major transitions in evolution, from the simplest genes to the most complex societies. Cooperative systems can be ruined if cheaters that lower group productivity are able to spread. Kin-selection theory predicts that high genetic relatedness can limit cheating, because separation of cheaters and cooperators limits opportunities to cheat and promotes...

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PMID: 17496139
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.0702723104
PMCID: PMC1885602

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