Experimental evolution reveals that high relatedness protects multicellular cooperation from cheaters

Nature Communications

Volumn 7, Issue , 2016, Pages

  Bastiaans, Eric ^a,b   Debets, Alfons J M ^a   Aanen, Duur K ^a  

^a WAGENINGEN UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^b UPPSALA UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CELLS AND CELL COMPONENTS; CHIMERA; EVOLUTIONARY BIOLOGY; EXPERIMENTAL STUDY; FUNGUS; MUTATION; RELATEDNESS; SPORE;

CHIMERA; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; INVESTMENT; NEUROSPORA CRASSA; CELL PROLIFERATION; CLONAL EVOLUTION; FUNGUS SPORE; GENETICS; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; MUTATION; ORGANISMAL INTERACTION;

FUNGI; NEUROSPORA CRASSA;

CELL PROLIFERATION; CLONAL EVOLUTION; MICROBIAL INTERACTIONS; MUTATION; NEUROSPORA CRASSA; SPORES, FUNGAL;

EID: 84966262579     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20411723     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/ncomms11435     Document Type: Article

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