Killing by Type VI secretion drives clonal phase separation and the evolution of cooperation
Luke McNally, Eryn Bernardy, Jacob Thomas, Arben Kalziqi, Jennifer T Pentz, Sam Brown, Brian Hammer, Peter Yunker, William Ratcliff
This study shows that Type VI secretion-driven killing in bacteria leads to clonal phase separation and promotes the evolution of cooperation through spatial assortment.
bioRxiv · Jul 14, 2016Evolutionary Biology