Experimental evolution reveals that high relatedness protects multicellular cooperation from cheaters

Maintenance of cooperation in multicellular organisms is hypothesized to depend on high relatedness among cells. Here, Bastiaans et al. provide empirical support for this hypothesis by directly comparing the evolutionary stability of multicellular cooperation in experimental lines of a fungus kept a...

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Main Authors: Eric Bastiaans, Alfons J. M. Debets, Duur K. Aanen
Format: article
Language:EN
Published: Nature Portfolio 2016
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Online Access:https://doaj.org/article/bb45ddb1a75f49c3888e235dde02634c
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