The Phoenix effect

Kevin R. Foster ()
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Kevin R. Foster: Program for Evolutionary Dynamics, Harvard University

Nature, 2006, vol. 441, issue 7091, 291-292

Abstract: A spore-forming bacterium can escape from social collapse and extinction with a single mutation that has a dramatic effect. Here is evidence that a cooperative system can recover from the very brink of destruction.

Date: 2006
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DOI: 10.1038/441291a

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