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Demographic noise can reverse the direction of deterministic selection
George W. A. Constable, Tim Rogers, Alan J. McKane +1
Deterministic evolutionary theory robustly predicts that populations displaying altruistic behaviours will be driven to extinction by mutant cheats that absorb common benefits but…
Lack of ecological context can create the illusion of social success in Dictyostelium discoideum
Ricardo Martinez-Garcia, Corina E. Tarnita
Studies of cooperation in microbes often focus on one fitness component, with little information about or attention to the ecological context, and this can lead to paradoxical resu…
Seasonality can induce coexistence of multiple bet-hedging strategies in Dictyostelium discoideum via storage effect
Ricardo Martinez-Garcia, Corina E. Tarnita
D. discoideum has been recently suggested as an example of bet-hedging. Upon starvation a population of unicellular amoebae splits between aggregators, which form a fruiting body m…