ArticleJournal of evolutionary biology2017
Resource abundance and the critical transition to cooperation.
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- New Insights into Vibrio cholerae Biofilms from Molecular Biophysics to Microbial Ecology.Advances in experimental medicine and biology · 2023Article
- Neural implementation of computational mechanisms underlying the continuous trade-off between cooperation and competition.Nature communications · 2022Article
- Cooperation and Lateral Forces: Moving Beyond Bottom-Up and Top-Down Drivers of Animal Population Dynamics.Frontiers in psychology · 2022Article
- An interplay of resource availability, population size and mutation rate potentiates the evolution of metabolic signaling.BMC ecology and evolution · 2021Article
- Ten recent insights for our understanding of cooperation.Nature ecology & evolution · 2021Review
- The thermodynamics of cognition: A mathematical treatment.Computational and structural biotechnology journal · 2021Article
- Nutrient status shapes selfish mitochondrial genome dynamics across different levels of selection.eLife · 2020Article
- Resource heterogeneity and the evolution of public goods cooperation.Evolution letters · 2020Article
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Abstract
Cooperation is abundant in nature, occurring at all levels of biological complexity. Yet cooperation is continually threatened by subversion from noncooperating cheaters. Previous studies have shown that cooperation can nevertheless be maintained when the benefits that cooperation provides to relatives outweigh the associated costs. These fitness costs and benefits are not fixed properties, but can be affected by the environment in which populations reside. Here, we describe how one environmental factor, resource abundance, decisively affects the evolution of cooperative public goods production in two independent evolving systems. In the Avida digital evolution platform, populations evolved in environments with different levels of a required resource, whereas populations of Vibrio cholerae evolved in the presence of different nutrient concentrations. In both systems, cooperators and cheaters co-existed stably in resource-rich environments, whereas cheaters dominated in resource-poor environments. These two outcomes were separated by a sharp transition that occurred at a critical level of resource. These results offer new insights into how the environment affects the evolution of cooperation and highlight the challenges that populations of cooperators face when they experience environmental change.
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