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Understanding policing as a mechanism of cheater control in cooperating bacteria
2018-02-19
Abstract excerpt
Policing occurs in insect, animal and human societies, where it is used as a conditional strategy to prevent cheating and enforce cooperation. Recently, it has been suggested that policing might even be relevant in enforcing cooperation in much simpler organisms such as bacteria. Here, we used individual-based modelling to develop an evolutionary concept for policing in bacteria, and identify the conditions under...
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- Literature Corpus work
- 9762f0ae-d0c6-5167-8238-0c96efee96c7
- DOI
- 10.1101/267799