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Cheats never prosper

  • Mulder D
  • Coombes B
Nature (2013) 494(7437) 321-322
DOI: 10.1038/494321a
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Abstract

Fast-growing ‘defector mutants’ can threaten the success of a bacterial infection. But one bacterial species prevails over these cheats by forming a subpopulation that has shut down expression of virulence genes

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Mulder, D. T., & Coombes, B. K. (2013). Cheats never prosper. Nature, 494(7437), 321–322. https://doi.org/10.1038/494321a

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