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SUBMITTER: Huang W
PROVIDER: S-EPMC5727225 | biostudies-literature | 2017 Dec
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Huang Weini W Traulsen Arne A Werner Benjamin B Hiltunen Teppo T Becks Lutz L
Nature communications 20171212 1
Trade-offs play an important role in evolution. Without trade-offs, evolution would maximize fitness of all traits leading to a "master of all traits". The shape of trade-offs has been shown to determine evolutionary trajectories and is often assumed to be static and independent of the actual evolutionary process. Here we propose that coevolution leads to a dynamical trade-off. We test this hypothesis in a microbial predator-prey system and show that the bacterial growth-defense trade-off change ...[more]