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1: J Biol. 2008 Sep 30;7(7):27. [Epub ahead of print]Click here to read Links

Observing bacteria through the lens of social evolution.

Nadell CD, Bassler BL, Levin SA.

Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, Princeton University, Princeton, NJ 08544, USA. slevin@eno.princeton.edu.

ABSTRACT: Explaining the evolution of cooperative behavior is a long-standing problem for which much theory has been developed. A recent paper in BMC Biology tests central elements of this theory by manipulating a simple bacterial experimental system. This approach is useful for assessing the principles of social evolution, but we argue that more effort must be invested in the inverse problem: using social evolution theory to understand the lives of bacteria.

PMID: 18831723 [PubMed - as supplied by publisher]