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Mutational meltdown of microbial altruists in <i>Streptomyces coelicolor</i> colonies

2020-10-21

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In colonies of the filamentous multicellular bacterium Streptomyces coelicolor , a sub-population of cells arise that hyper-produce metabolically costly antibiotics, resulting in division of labor that maximizes colony fitness. Because these cells contain large genomic deletions that cause massive reductions to individual fitness, their behavior is altruistic, much like worker castes in social insects or somatic...

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Literature Corpus work: bea00be6-776e-575f-8e54-94be4725a47b
DOI: 10.1101/2020.10.20.347344

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