ArticleBiology letters2022
A personal cost of cheating can stabilize reproductive altruism during the early evolution of clonal multicellularity.
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- Synergistic inter-clonal cooperation involving crosstalk, co-option and co-dependency can enhance the invasiveness of genetically distant cancer clones.BMC ecology and evolution · 2023Article
- The Genetics of Fitness Reorganization during the Transition to Multicellularity: The VolvocineGenes · 2023Review
- Minor variations in multicellular life cycles have major effects on adaptation.PLoS computational biology · 2023Article
- A personal cost of cheating can stabilize reproductive altruism during the early evolution of clonal multicellularity.Biology letters · 2022Article
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Abstract
Understanding how cooperation evolved and is maintained remains an important and often controversial topic because cheaters that reap the benefits of cooperation without paying the costs can threaten the evolutionary stability of cooperative traits. Cooperation-and especially reproductive altruism-is particularly relevant to the evolution of multicellularity, as somatic cells give up their reproductive potential in order to contribute to the fitness of the newly emerged multicellular individual. Here, we investigated cheating in a simple multicellular species-the green alga
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