Shearing in flow environment promotes evolution of social behavior in microbial populations
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- General Reference
- author-supplied keywords
- keywords
- evolution of cooperation
- fluid dynamics
- authors
- Gurdip Uppal
- Dervis Can Vural
- title
- Shearing in flow environment promotes evolution of social behavior in microbial populations
- type
- journal
- year
- 2018
- source
- eLife
- volume
- 7
- publisher
- eLife Sciences Publications Ltd
- link
- https://www.mendeley.com/catalogue/812cf88b-9be8-3fde-8aea-f89307f7c7bc/(Error!"Error!" is not a number.)
Abstract
How producers of public goods persist inmicrobial communities is amajor question in 8 evolutionary biology. Cooperation is evolutionarily unstable, since cheating strains can reproduce 9 quicker and take over. Spatial structure has been shown to be a robustmechanism for the 0 1 evolution of cooperation. Here we study how spatial assortmentmight emerge from native 1 1 dynamics and show that fluid flow shear promotes cooperative behavior. Social structures arise 2 1 naturally from our advection-diffusion-reactionmodel as self-reproducing Turing patterns. We 13 computationally study the effects of fluid advection on these patterns as amechanism to enable or 4 1 enhance social behavior. Our central finding is that flow shear enables and promotes social 5 1 behavior inmicrobes by increasing the group fragmentation rate and thereby limiting the spread of 6 1 cheating strains. Regions of the flow domain with higher shear admit high cooperativity and large 7 1 population density, whereas low shear regions are devoid of life due to opportunisticmutations.
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Identifiers
- doi: 10.7554/eLife.34862 (Google search)
- issn: 2050084X
- sgr: 85051941999
- pmid: 29785930
- arxiv: arXiv:1710.02762v1
- scopus: 2-s2.0-85051941999
- pui: 623531372
