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Cooperation in Microbial Populations: Theory and Experimental Model Systems
J. Cremer, A. Melbinger, K. Wienand +3
Cooperative behavior, the costly provision of benefits to others, is common across all domains of life. This review article discusses cooperative behavior in the microbial world, m…
The Impact of Environmental Fluctuations on Evolutionary Fitness Functions
Anna Melbinger, Massimo Vergassola
The concept of fitness as a measure for a species's success in natural selection is central to the theory of evolution. We here investigate how reproduction rates which are not con…
The Emergence of Cooperation from a Single Mutant during Microbial Life-Cycles
Anna Melbinger, Jonas Cremer, Erwin Frey
Cooperative behavior is widespread in nature, even though cooperating individuals always run the risk to be exploited by free-riders. Population structure effectively promotes coop…
Evolutionary Fitness in Variable Environments
Anna Melbinger, Massimo Vergassola
One essential ingredient of evolutionary theory is the concept of fitness as a measure for a species' success in its living conditions. Here, we quantify the effect of environmenta…
Growth dynamics and the evolution of cooperation in microbial populations
Jonas Cremer, Anna Melbinger, Erwin Frey
Microbes providing public goods are widespread in nature despite running the risk of being exploited by free-riders. However, the precise ecological factors supporting cooperation…
Evolutionary and Population Dynamics: A Coupled Approach
Jonas Cremer, Anna Melbinger, Erwin Frey
We study the interplay of population growth and evolutionary dynamics using a stochastic model based on birth and death events. In contrast to the common assumption of an independe…