Microbial Population Biology

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Entries from March 31st, 2008

Evolution of cooperation, cheating, and exploitation

March 31st, 2008 · No Comments · General

Dear all, We’ll be exploring the various strategies that microbes (bacteria and viruses in particular) can evolve so as to increase their own fitness to the benefit or detriment of others in their community.  We’ll begin this week by learning about a very simple system that, it turns out, is not so simple. Paul Turner, [...]

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