Bacterial cheaters

Joan E. Strassmann ()
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Joan E. Strassmann: Rice University

Nature, 2000, vol. 404, issue 6778, 555-556

Abstract: It is not just groups of higher organisms that are susceptible to cheaters - individuals that reap the benefits of cooperation without paying the costs. Cheating individuals also appear in laboratory cultures of Myxococcus xanthus bacteria, although their fate in nature is uncertain.

Date: 2000
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DOI: 10.1038/35007175

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