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Microbial Evolution: Enforcing Cooperation by Partial Kin Selection

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CURRENT BIOLOGY
Volume 19, Issue 20, Pages R943-R945

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CELL PRESS
DOI: 10.1016/j.cub.2009.09.045

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How do bacterial cells mediate effective cooperation? A new paper suggests two routes: converting the uninitiated to their cause by lateral gene transfer, and enforcing cooperative behavior by killing revertants.

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