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SUBMITTER: Julou T
PROVIDER: S-EPMC3732961 | biostudies-literature | 2013 Jul
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Julou Thomas T Mora Thierry T Guillon Laurent L Croquette Vincent V Schalk Isabelle J IJ Bensimon David D Desprat Nicolas N
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America 20130715 31
The maintenance of cooperation in populations where public goods are equally accessible to all but inflict a fitness cost on individual producers is a long-standing puzzle of evolutionary biology. An example of such a scenario is the secretion of siderophores by bacteria into their environment to fetch soluble iron. In a planktonic culture, these molecules diffuse rapidly, such that the same concentration is experienced by all bacteria. However, on solid substrates, bacteria form dense and packe ...[more]