Nonadaptive processes can create the appearance of facultative cheating in microbes

Evolution

Volumn 68, Issue 3, 2014, Pages 816-826

  Smith, Jeff ^a   Van Dyken, J David ^b   Velicer, Gregory J ^c  

^a WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c ETH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Altruism; Cheating; Cooperation; Kin selection; Local competition; Soft selection

Indexed keywords

ALTRUISM; BACTERIUM; CHEATING BEHAVIOR; FACULTATIVE BEHAVIOR; FITNESS; KIN SELECTION; LOCAL ADAPTATION; MUTATION; PROTOZOAN; SPORULATION;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); DICTYOSTELIUM; MYXOCOCCUS;

ADAPTATION; ALTRUISM; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL SPORE; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; CHEATING; COOPERATION; GENETIC SELECTION; GENETICS; KIN SELECTION; LOCAL COMPETITION; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; MUTATION; MYXOCOCCUS; PHYSIOLOGY; SOFT SELECTION;

ALTRUISM; CHEATING; COOPERATION; KIN SELECTION; LOCAL COMPETITION; SOFT SELECTION;

ADAPTATION, PHYSIOLOGICAL; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; MODELS, GENETIC; MUTATION; MYXOCOCCUS; SELECTION, GENETIC; SPORES, BACTERIAL;

EID: 84896726708     PISSN: 00143820     EISSN: 15585646     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/evo.12306     Document Type: Article

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