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Persistence of the single lineage of transmissible 'social cancer' in an asexual ant.
Molecular ecology - 1 Feb 2011
Dobata S, Sasaki T, Mori H, Hasegawa E, Shimada M, Tsuji K
Abstract excerpt
How cooperation can arise and persist, given the threat of cheating phenotypes, is a central problem in evolutionary biology, but the actual significance of cheating in natural populations is still poorly understood. Theories of social evolution predict that cheater lineages are evolutionarily short-lived. However, an exception comes from obligate socially parasitic species, some of which thought to have arisen...
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