Short-range C-signaling restricts cheating behavior during Myxococcus xanthus development.

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Myxococcus xanthus uses short-range C-signaling to coordinate multicellular mound formation with sporulation during fruiting body development. A csgA mutant deficient in C-signaling can cheat on wild type (WT) in mixtures and form spores disproportionately, but our understanding of cheating behavior is incomplete. We subjected mixtures of WT and csgA cells at different ratios to co-development and used confocal...

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