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Category: cooperation and cheatingBy Vaughn on Nov 19, 2007 in Class notes, adaptation, cooperation and cheating, experimental evolution, sex and recombination | 0 Comments
In doing some housekeeping I realized that I never posted these slides. Here they are for your reference. 713-lecture-7-viral-cooperation-defection.ppt
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By Vaughn on Nov 14, 2007 in General, cooperation and cheating | 0 Comments
Hi gang,
Rather than split time in class between review of grant outlines and the stunning findings from the Myxococcus xanthus system, we’ll devote class time to Myxos and recitation to grant outlines.
I hope you have found the time to read the PNAS paper and PLOS papers I posted previously on this subject; these papers will [...]
By Vaughn on Nov 4, 2007 in Assignments, cooperation and cheating, experimental evolution, sex and recombination | 0 Comments
As promised, we will move from our discussion of the evolution of sex to one focused on the evolution of cooperation and cheating. Whether this is an appropriate segue is certainly debatable.
I have posted three articles for this week, all discussing the evolution of cooperation and cheating in RNA phage phi-6, and all written by [...]
