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A Possible Mechanism of Repressing Cheating Mutants in Myxobacteria
Ying Xiao and Winfried Just
Department of Mathematics,
Ohio University,
Athens, OH 45701,U.S.A.
Abstract. The formation of fruiting bodies by myxobacteria colonies involves altruistic suicide by many individual bacteria and is thus vulnerable to exploitation by cheating mutants. We report results of simulations that show how in a structured environment with patchy distribution of cheating mutants the wild type might persist.
LNCS 2723, p. 154 f.
lncs@springer.de
© Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg 2003