The Social Lives of Microbes

By Stuart A. West, Steve Diggle, Angus Buckling, Andy Gardner, A. Griffin. 2007

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Subfields: Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics, Genetics, Sociology and Political Science

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Citations in the corpus

The Classification and Evolution of Bacterial Cross-Feeding (2019, background): “Formally, a cheat is a member of a population that benefits from a function, but does not pay the full cost of performing this function, thus decreasing the fitness of those individuals that do (Hamilton, 1964; Trivers, 1971; Axelrod and Hamilton, 1981; Ferriere et al., 2002; West et al., 2007a; Gho”
Bacterial competition: surviving and thriving in the microbial jungle (2010, background): “The clonal nature of many bacterial populations is thought to facilitate the evolution of cooperative behaviours through kin selection”
The Hologenome Concept: Human, Animal and Plant Microbiota (2014, background): “A second driving force for the evolution of cooperation could be that it provides a fitness benefit to the holobiont that outweighs the cost of providing the benefit (West et al. 2007).”
Social semantics: how useful has group selection been? (2008, methodology): “In fact, we agree that there are historical and conceptual links between old and new group selection – that is why we discussed them together in the same section of our original review (West et al., 2007b).”
The Evolution of Mutualistic Dependence (2020, background): “Mutualistic associations are widespread in nature and linked to major evolutionary transitions (Bronstein 2015, West et al. 2015).”
Probiotics and competitive exclusion of pathogens in shrimp aquaculture (2020, background): “, 2013), limiting exposure to social ‘cheaters’ (West et al., 2007; Smukalla et al., 2008; Queller et al., 2011; Drescher et al., 2014), and increasing tolerance to antimicrobials (Olsen, 2015).”