Local adaptation, geographical distance and phylogenetic relatedness: assessing the drivers of siderophore-mediated social interactions in natural bacterial communities
E. Butaite, J. Kramer, R. Kuemmerli
The paper investigates factors driving siderophore-mediated social interactions in Pseudomonas communities, finding phylogenetic relatedness, not geographical distance, primarily determines cooperation and cheating behaviors.
bioRxiv · Dec 16, 2020Evolutionary Biology