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On the possibility of engineering social evolution in microfluidic environments
Gurdip Uppal, Dervis Can Vural
Many species of microbes cooperate by producing public goods from which they collectively benefit. However, these populations are under the risk of being taken over by cheating mut…
Evolution of chemotactic hitchhiking
Gurdip Uppal, Weiyi Hu, Dervis Can Vural
Bacteria typically reside in heterogeneous environments with various chemogradients where motile cells can gain an advantage over non-motile cells. Since motility is energetically…
Evolution of specialized microbial cooperation in dynamic fluids
Gurdip Uppal, Dervis Can Vural
Here, we study the evolution of specialization using realistic computer simulations of bacteria that secrete two public goods in a dynamic fluid. Through this first principles appr…
Shearing in flow environment promotes evolution of social behavior in microbial populations
Gurdip Uppal, Dervis Can Vural
How producers of public goods persist in microbial communities is a major question in evolutionary biology. Cooperation is evolutionarily unstable, since cheating strains can repro…