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SUBMITTER: Smith J
PROVIDER: S-EPMC3097903 | biostudies-literature | 2010 Jun
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Smith Jeff J Van Dyken J David JD Zee Peter C PC
Science (New York, N.Y.) 20100601 5986
Hamilton's rule states that cooperation will evolve if the fitness cost to actors is less than the benefit to recipients multiplied by their genetic relatedness. This rule makes many simplifying assumptions, however, and does not accurately describe social evolution in organisms such as microbes where selection is both strong and nonadditive. We derived a generalization of Hamilton's rule and measured its parameters in Myxococcus xanthus bacteria. Nonadditivity made cooperative sporulation remar ...[more]