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Black Queen Hypothesis, partial privatization, and quorum sensing evolution.
PloS one - 1 Jan 2022
Souza Lucas Santana, Irie Yasuhiko, Eda Shigetoshi
Abstract excerpt
Microorganisms produce costly cooperative goods whose benefit is partially shared with nonproducers, called 'mixed' goods. The Black Queen Hypothesis predicts that partial privatization has two major evolutionary implications. First, to favor strains producing several types of mixed goods over nonproducing strains. Second, to favor the maintenance of cooperative traits through different strains instead of having...
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