Evolutionary BiologyPLoS BiologyPeer-reviewed
Differential evolution of cooperative traits in aggregative multicellular bacterium Myxococcus xanthus driven by varied population bottleneck sizes
Jyotsna Kalathera, Prakhar Jaiswal, Neha Kumari Mandal…·Samay Pande
This study shows that varying population bottleneck sizes in Myxococcus xanthus influence the evolution of cooperative traits, with stringent bottlenecks favoring fruiting body formation and growth while relaxed bottlenecks enhance overall fitness.