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Cheating and resistance to cheating in natural populations of the bacterium Pseudomonas fluorescens.
Evolution; international journal of organic evolution - 1 Oct 2017
Bruce John B, Cooper Guy A, Chabas Hélène, West Stuart A, Griffin Ashleigh S
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Bacteria perform cooperative behaviors that are exploitable by noncooperative cheats, and cheats frequently arise and coexist with cooperators in laboratory microcosms. However, evidence of competitive dynamics between cooperators and cheats in nature remains limited. Using the production of pyoverdine, an iron-scavenging molecule, and natural soil populations of Pseudomonas fluorescens, we found that (1)...
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