{"database":"biostudies-literature","file_versions":[],"scores":null,"additional":{"submitter":["Belcijan Pandur K"],"funding":["ARIS","Slovenian Research Agency"],"pagination":["wrae199"],"full_dataset_link":["https://www.ebi.ac.uk/biostudies/studies/S-EPMC11523185"],"repository":["biostudies-literature"],"omics_type":["Unknown"],"volume":["18(1)"],"pubmed_abstract":["Cooperative behaviours in human, animal, and even microbial societies are vulnerable to exploitation. Kin discrimination has been hypothesized to help stabilize cooperation. However, the mechanisms that sustain cooperative behaviour remain poorly understood. Here, we investigate the role of kin discrimination in limiting the spread of cheats in adjoining populations during surfactant-dependent cooperative swarming over surfaces using the bacterium Bacillus subtilis as a model organism. We show that mixing surfactant secreting cooperators and cheats that do not produce surfactants at 1:1 initial ratio quickly leads to cooperation collapse. However, when such common swarms encounter nonkin B. subtilis swarms, the proportion of the surfactant nonproducers decreases, suggesting that kinship de"],"journal":["The ISME journal"],"pubmed_title":["Nonkin interactions between Bacillus subtilis soil isolates limit the spread of swarming deficient cheats."],"pmcid":["PMC11523185"],"funding_grant_id":["P4-0116","J4-9302","J4-4550","J1-4411"],"pubmed_authors":["Stefanic P","Belcijan Pandur K","Kraigher B","Mandic Mulec I","Tomac A"],"additional_accession":[]},"is_claimable":false,"name":"Nonkin interactions between Bacillus subtilis soil isolates limit the spread of swarming deficient cheats.","description":"Cooperative behaviours in human, animal, and even microbial societies are vulnerable to exploitation. Kin discrimination has been hypothesized to help stabilize cooperation. However, the mechanisms that sustain cooperative behaviour remain poorly understood. Here, we investigate the role of kin discrimination in limiting the spread of cheats in adjoining populations during surfactant-dependent cooperative swarming over surfaces using the bacterium Bacillus subtilis as a model organism. We show that mixing surfactant secreting cooperators and cheats that do not produce surfactants at 1:1 initial ratio quickly leads to cooperation collapse. However, when such common swarms encounter nonkin B. subtilis swarms, the proportion of the surfactant nonproducers decreases, suggesting that kinship de","dates":{"release":"2024-01-01T00:00:00Z","publication":"2024 Jan","modification":"2026-07-15T17:47:05.787Z","creation":"2025-04-06T09:34:17.212Z"},"accession":"S-EPMC11523185","cross_references":{"pubmed":["39375016"],"doi":["10.1093/ismejo/wrae199"]}}