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SUBMITTER: Foster KR
PROVIDER: S-EPMC1635526 | biostudies-literature | 2006 Sep
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Foster Kevin R KR Kokko Hanna H
Proceedings. Biological sciences 20060901 1598
Mutualisms present a challenge for evolutionary theory. How is cooperation maintained in the face of selection for selfishness and cheating? Both theory and data suggest that partner choice, where one species preferentially directs aid to the more cooperative members of the other species, is central to cooperation in many mutualisms. However, the theory has only so far considered the evolutionary effects of partner choice on one of the species in a mutualism in isolation. Here, we investigate th ...[more]