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dc.contributor.authorBrockhurst, Michael A.
dc.contributor.authorBuckling, Angus
dc.contributor.authorRacey, Dan
dc.contributor.authorGardner, Andy
dc.date.accessioned2014-04-28T14:31:03Z
dc.date.available2014-04-28T14:31:03Z
dc.date.issued2008-05-14
dc.identifier.citationBrockhurst , M A , Buckling , A , Racey , D & Gardner , A 2008 , ' Resource supply and the evolution of public-goods cooperation in bacteria ' , BMC Biology , vol. 6 , 20 . https://doi.org/10.1186/1741-7007-6-20en
dc.identifier.issn1741-7007
dc.identifier.otherPURE: 64168676
dc.identifier.otherPURE UUID: 3ee871bb-2e4e-453f-9368-da7b2fc348ad
dc.identifier.otherWOS: 000256446000001
dc.identifier.otherScopus: 44949210419
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/10023/4636
dc.descriptionThis work was funded by the Wellcome Trust VIP scheme (administered by the University of Liverpool Research Development Fund), the Leverhulme Trust and the Royal Society. Both AB and AG are supported by Royal Society University Research Fellowships.en
dc.description.abstractBackground: Explaining public-goods cooperation is a challenge for evolutionary biology. However, cooperation is expected to more readily evolve if it imposes a smaller cost. Such costs of cooperation are expected to decline with increasing resource supply, an ecological parameter that varies widely in nature. We experimentally tested the effect of resource supply on the evolution of cooperation using two well-studied bacterial public-good traits: biofilm formation by Pseudomonas fluorescens and siderophore production by Pseudomonas aeruginosa. Results: The frequency of cooperative bacteria increased with resource supply in the context of both bacterial public-good traits. In both cases this was due to decreasing costs of investment into public-goods cooperation with increasing resource supply. Conclusion: Our empirical tests with bacteria suggest that public-goods cooperation is likely to increase with increasing resource supply due to reduced costs of cooperation, confirming that resource supply is an important factor in the evolution of cooperation.
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dc.language.isoeng
dc.relation.ispartofBMC Biologyen
dc.rights© 2008 Brockhurst et al; licensee BioMed Central Ltd. This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.en
dc.subjectPseudomonas-fluorescensen
dc.subjectPathogenic bacteriaen
dc.subjectGenetical evolutionen
dc.subjectAdaptive radiationen
dc.subjectVirulenceen
dc.subjectHypermutabilityen
dc.subjectAeruginosaen
dc.subjectQH301 Biologyen
dc.subject.lccQH301en
dc.titleResource supply and the evolution of public-goods cooperation in bacteriaen
dc.typeJournal articleen
dc.description.versionPublisher PDFen
dc.contributor.institutionUniversity of St Andrews. School of Biologyen
dc.identifier.doihttps://doi.org/10.1186/1741-7007-6-20
dc.description.statusPeer revieweden


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