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PROCEEDINGS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES
Volume 279, Issue 1743, Pages 3742-3748Publisher
ROYAL SOC
DOI: 10.1098/rspb.2012.0769
Keywords
coevolution; genetic specificity; cooperation; bacteria; virus
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- EPSRC [EP/H032436/1]
- BBSRC
- Wellcome Trust [WT082273]
- ERC
- EPSRC [EP/H032436/1] Funding Source: UKRI
- Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council [EP/H032436/1] Funding Source: researchfish
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Antagonistic coevolution between hosts and parasites can have a major impact on host population structures, and hence on the evolution of social traits. Using stochastic modelling techniques in the context of bacteria-virus interactions, we investigate the impact of coevolution across a continuum of host-parasite genetic specificity (specifically, where genotypes have the same infectivity/resistance ranges (matching alleles, MA) to highly variable ranges (gene-for-gene, GFG)) on population genetic structure, and on the social behaviour of the host. We find that host cooperation is more likely to be maintained towards the MA end of the continuum, as the more frequent bottlenecks associated with an MA-like interaction can prevent defector invasion, and can even allow migrant cooperators to invade populations of defectors.
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