Individual- versus group-optimality in the production of secreted bacterial compounds
K. Schiessl, A. Ross-Gillespie, D. M. Cornforth, M. Weigert, C. Bigosch, S. P. Brown, M. Ackermann, R. Kummerli
The paper shows that for shared compounds with saturating benefits, division of labor evolves when production costs diminish with higher output, as demonstrated through mathematical modeling and experimental testing with pyoverdine.
Evolution · Apr 1, 2019Peer-reviewedEvolutionary Biology