Cooperation and bacterial pathogenicity: an approach to social evolution

Kin selection could provide an explanation for social behavior in bacteria. The production of public goods such as extracellular molecules is metabolically costly for bacteria but could help them to exploit nutrients or invade a host. Some bacterial cells called social cheaters do not produce public...

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Autores principales:	Alfonso Molina,C, Vilchez,Susana
Lenguaje:	English
Publicado:	Sociedad de Biología de Chile 2014
Materias:	Cooperation Evolution Pathogenicity Public goods
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spelling	oai:scielo:S0716-078X20140001000132015-07-23Cooperation and bacterial pathogenicity: an approach to social evolutionAlfonso Molina,CVilchez,Susana Cooperation Evolution Pathogenicity Public goods Kin selection could provide an explanation for social behavior in bacteria. The production of public goods such as extracellular molecules is metabolically costly for bacteria but could help them to exploit nutrients or invade a host. Some bacterial cells called social cheaters do not produce public goods; however, they take advantage of these extracellular molecules. In this review, the relationships between social behavior, cooperation, and evolution of bacterial pathogenicity are analyzed. This paper also examines the role of horizontal transfer of genes encoding for virulence factors and how the movement of mobile genetic elements would influence the pathogenicity and social relationships. Moreover, the link between ecological relationships and evolution in entomopathogenic bacteria, focusing on Bacillus thuringiensis is considered. Finally, the findings obtained with B. thuringiensis are extrapolated on Bacillus pumilus 15.1, an entomopathogenic strain whose pathogenicity is not understood yet.info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccessSociedad de Biología de ChileRevista chilena de historia natural v.87 20142014-01-01text/htmlhttp://www.scielo.cl/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S0716-078X2014000100013en10.1186/S40693-014-0014-2
institution	Scielo Chile
collection	Scielo Chile
language	English
topic	Cooperation Evolution Pathogenicity Public goods
spellingShingle	Cooperation Evolution Pathogenicity Public goods Alfonso Molina,C Vilchez,Susana Cooperation and bacterial pathogenicity: an approach to social evolution
description	Kin selection could provide an explanation for social behavior in bacteria. The production of public goods such as extracellular molecules is metabolically costly for bacteria but could help them to exploit nutrients or invade a host. Some bacterial cells called social cheaters do not produce public goods; however, they take advantage of these extracellular molecules. In this review, the relationships between social behavior, cooperation, and evolution of bacterial pathogenicity are analyzed. This paper also examines the role of horizontal transfer of genes encoding for virulence factors and how the movement of mobile genetic elements would influence the pathogenicity and social relationships. Moreover, the link between ecological relationships and evolution in entomopathogenic bacteria, focusing on Bacillus thuringiensis is considered. Finally, the findings obtained with B. thuringiensis are extrapolated on Bacillus pumilus 15.1, an entomopathogenic strain whose pathogenicity is not understood yet.
author	Alfonso Molina,C Vilchez,Susana
author_facet	Alfonso Molina,C Vilchez,Susana
author_sort	Alfonso Molina,C
title	Cooperation and bacterial pathogenicity: an approach to social evolution
title_short	Cooperation and bacterial pathogenicity: an approach to social evolution
title_full	Cooperation and bacterial pathogenicity: an approach to social evolution
title_fullStr	Cooperation and bacterial pathogenicity: an approach to social evolution
title_full_unstemmed	Cooperation and bacterial pathogenicity: an approach to social evolution
title_sort	cooperation and bacterial pathogenicity: an approach to social evolution
publisher	Sociedad de Biología de Chile
publishDate	2014
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Cooperation and bacterial pathogenicity: an approach to social evolution

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