Kin selection for cooperation in natural bacterial populations
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Significance: Bacteria secrete many molecules outside the cell, where they provide benefits to other cells. One potential reason for producing these “public goods” is that they benefit closely related cells that share the gene for cooperation (kin selection). While many laboratory studies have supported this hypothesis, there is a lack of evidence that kin selection favors cooperation in natural populations. We examined bacterial genomes from the environment and used population genetics theory to analyze the DNA sequences. Our analyses suggest that public goods cooperation has indeed been favored by kin selection in natural populations.
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Most early animals-such as Ediacarans-had limited or no mobility, entailing that individuals remained close to their point of origin, resulting in aggregations of closely related individuals and enhancing opportunities for indirect fitness benefits of cooperation.
“Second, most early animals—such as Ediacarans—had limited (or no) mobility, entailing that individuals remained close to their point of origin, resulting in aggregations of closely related individuals and enhancing opportunities for indirect fitness benefits of cooperation, as observed in bacteria [26].”
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Experimental — accuracy not yet measuredParticularly successful areas, such as the evolution of sex ratios and cooperation, have produced comparative studies that can explain 20-40% of the variation in data across species.
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- Authors
- Belcher, L. J., Dewar, A. E., Ghoul, M., & West, S. A.
- Affiliations
- University of Oxford (GB)
- Corresponding author
- Belcher, Laurence J.
- Venue
- Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
- Publisher
- National Academy of Sciences
- Published
- 2022-02-22
- Volume
- 119
- Issue
- 9
- ISSN
- 0027-8424 (ISSN-L)
- 1091-6490
- PMC
- PMC8892524
- OpenAlex
- W4213441936
- Cited by
- 36
- References
- 95
- Citations by year
- 2026: 9 · 2025: 7 · 2024: 9 · 2023: 6 · 2022: 4 · 2019: 1
- FWCI
- 9.35
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- hybrid
- doi.org
- Licence
- Locations
- Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (publishedVersion, cc-by-nc-nd)
- PubMed Central (publishedVersion, cc-by-nc-nd)
- PubMed (publishedVersion)
- Topics
- Social Sciences › Sociology and Political Science › Evolutionary Game Theory and Cooperation
- Life Sciences › Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology › Genetics › Evolution and Genetic Dynamics
- Life Sciences › Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology › Molecular Biology › Bacterial biofilms and quorum sensing
- Keywords
- kin selection, bacterial cooperation, public goods, bacterial genomes, relatedness, population genetics
- MeSH terms
- Genes, Bacterial, Mutation, Pseudomonas aeruginosa, Bacterial Physiological Phenomena, Quorum Sensing
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