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The genetics of a putative social trait in natural populations of yeast.
Molecular ecology - 1 Oct 2014
Bozdag G O, Greig D
Abstract excerpt
The sharing of secreted invertase by yeast cells is a well-established laboratory model for cooperation, but the only evidence that such cooperation occurs in nature is that the SUC loci, which encode invertase, vary in number and functionality. Genotypes that do not produce invertase can act as 'cheats' in laboratory experiments, growing on the glucose that is released when invertase producers, or 'cooperators',...
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