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Metabolism and the Evolution of Social Behavior.
Molecular biology and evolution - 1 Sept 2017
Boyle Kerry E, Monaco Hilary T, Deforet Maxime, Yan Jinyuan, Wang Zhe, Rhee Kyu, Xavier Joao B
Abstract excerpt
How does metabolism influence social behavior? This fundamental question at the interface of molecular biology and social evolution is hard to address with experiments in animals, and therefore, we turned to a simple microbial system: swarming in the bacterium Pseudomonas aeruginosa. Using genetic engineering, we excised a locus encoding a key metabolic regulator and disrupted P. aeruginosa's metabolic prudence,...
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