Altruism can evolve when relatedness is low: Evidence from bacteria committing suicide upon phage infection

Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences

Volumn 280, Issue 1759, 2013, Pages

  Refardt, Dominik ^a,e   Bergmiller, Tobias ^a,b   Kümmerli, Rolf ^c,d  

^a ETH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^b INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY AUSTRIA   (Austria)

^c SWISS FEDERAL INSTITUTE OF AQUATIC SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Switzerland)

^d UNIVERSITY OF ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^e ZURICH UNIVERSITY OF APPLIED SCIENCES   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Altruistic suicide; Hamilton's rule; Host defence; Kin selection; Parasite transmission; Structured population

Indexed keywords

ALTRUISM; BACTERIOPHAGE; BACTERIUM; COLONY; DEFENSE BEHAVIOR; EVOLUTIONARY BIOLOGY; HOST-PATHOGEN INTERACTION; KIN SELECTION; LYSIS; MORTALITY; PARASITE TRANSMISSION; POPULATION STRUCTURE; RELATEDNESS; SOCIAL INSECT; SURVIVAL; WORKER CASTE;

EID: 84875296529     PISSN: 09628452     EISSN: 14712954     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rspb.2012.3035     Document Type: Article

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