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Horizontal gene transfer and the evolution of bacterial cooperation.

Evolution; international journal of organic evolution - 1 Jan 2011

Mc Ginty Sorcha E, Rankin Daniel J, Brown Sam P

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Bacteria frequently exhibit cooperative behaviors but cooperative strains are vulnerable to invasion by cheater strains that reap the benefits of cooperation but do not perform the cooperative behavior themselves. Bacterial genomes often contain mobile genetic elements such as plasmids. When a ge...

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PMID: 20825481
DOI: 10.1111/j.1558-5646.2010.01121.x
PMCID: PMC3038327

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