Pleiotropy and synergistic cooperation

David C Queller

PLOS Biology, 2019, vol. 17, issue 6, 1-3

Abstract: Some forms of stable cooperation can evolve though pleiotropy with a beneficial private trait. This Formal Comment addresses a recent challenge to this idea, arguing that for synergistic, frequency-dependent cooperation, pleiotropy can raise the frequency up to a point where cooperation is favoured on its own.

Date: 2019
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