Ecological histories determine the success of social exploitation

Ecological context often modifies biotic interactions, yet effects of ecological history are poorly understood. In experiments with the bacterium Myxococcus xanthus , resource-level histories of genotypes interacting during cooperative multicellular development were found to strongly regulate social fitness. Yet how developmental spore production responded to variation in resource-level histories between interactants differed greatly between cooperators and cheaters; relative-fitness advantages gained by cheating after high-resource growth were generally reduced or absent if one or both parties experienced low-resource growth. Low-resource growth also eliminated facultative exploitation in some pairwise mixes of cooperation-proficient natural isolates that occurs when both strains have grown under resource abundance. Our results contrast with previous studies in which cooperator fitness correlated positively with resource level and suggest that resource-level variation may be important in regulating whether exploitation of cooperators occurs in a natural context.

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E-Artikel

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2023

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2023

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Zur Gesamtaufnahme - year:2023

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bioRxiv : the preprint server for biology - (2023) vom: 14. Dez.

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Englisch

Beteiligte Personen:

Schaal, Kaitlin A [VerfasserIn]
Manhes, Pauline [VerfasserIn]
Velicer, Gregory J [VerfasserIn]

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Date Revised 03.01.2024

published: Electronic

Citation Status PubMed-not-MEDLINE

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10.1101/2023.12.14.571652

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NLM366590138