Evolutionary BiologybioRxiv
Allopatric divergence of cooperators confers cheating resistance and limits the effects of a defector mutation
K. A. Schaal, Y.-T. N. Yu, M. Vasse, G. J. Velicer
The paper shows that allopatric divergence of cooperators reduces cheater spread by limiting the range of cooperators a defector can exploit and altering mutation effects on social traits.
DOI 10.1186/s12862-022-02094-7