IDEAS home Printed from https://ideas.repec.org/a/plo/pbio00/3000320.html
   My bibliography  Save this article

Pleiotropy and synergistic cooperation

Author

Listed:
  • David C Queller

Abstract

Some forms of stable cooperation can evolve though pleiotropy with a beneficial private trait. This Formal Comment addresses a recent challenge to this idea, arguing that for synergistic, frequency-dependent cooperation, pleiotropy can raise the frequency up to a point where cooperation is favoured on its own.

Suggested Citation

  • David C Queller, 2019. "Pleiotropy and synergistic cooperation," PLOS Biology, Public Library of Science, vol. 17(6), pages 1-3, June.
    • Handle: RePEc:plo:pbio00:3000320
    DOI: 10.1371/journal.pbio.3000320
    as

    Download full text from publisher

    File URL: https://journals.plos.org/plosbiology/article?id=10.1371/journal.pbio.3000320
    Download Restriction: no
    File URL: https://journals.plos.org/plosbiology/article/file?id=10.1371/journal.pbio.3000320&type=printable
    Download Restriction: no
    File URL: https://libkey.io/10.1371/journal.pbio.3000320?utm_source=ideas
    LibKey link: if access is restricted and if your library uses this service, LibKey will redirect you to where you can use your library subscription to access this item
    ---><---

    References listed on IDEAS

    as
    1. Kevin R. Foster & Gad Shaulsky & Joan E. Strassmann & David C. Queller & Chris R. L. Thompson, 2004. "Pleiotropy as a mechanism to stabilize cooperation," Nature, Nature, vol. 431(7009), pages 693-696, October.
    Full references (including those not matched with items on IDEAS)

    Most related items

    These are the items that most often cite the same works as this one and are cited by the same works as this one.
    1. Giovanni Scarinci & Jan-Luca Ariens & Georgia Angelidou & Sebastian Schmidt & Timo Glatter & Nicole Paczia & Victor Sourjik, 2024. "Enhanced metabolic entanglement emerges during the evolution of an interkingdom microbial community," Nature Communications, Nature, vol. 15(1), pages 1-13, December.
    2. Martin Schuster & Eric Foxall & David Finch & Hal Smith & Patrick De Leenheer, 2017. "Tragedy of the commons in the chemostat," PLOS ONE, Public Library of Science, vol. 12(12), pages 1-13, December.

    More about this item

    Statistics

    Access and download statistics

    Corrections

    All material on this site has been provided by the respective publishers and authors. You can help correct errors and omissions. When requesting a correction, please mention this item's handle: RePEc:plo:pbio00:3000320. See general information about how to correct material in RePEc.

    If you have authored this item and are not yet registered with RePEc, we encourage you to do it here. This allows to link your profile to this item. It also allows you to accept potential citations to this item that we are uncertain about.

    If CitEc recognized a bibliographic reference but did not link an item in RePEc to it, you can help with this form .

    If you know of missing items citing this one, you can help us creating those links by adding the relevant references in the same way as above, for each refering item. If you are a registered author of this item, you may also want to check the "citations" tab in your RePEc Author Service profile, as there may be some citations waiting for confirmation.

    For technical questions regarding this item, or to correct its authors, title, abstract, bibliographic or download information, contact: plosbiology (email available below). General contact details of provider: https://journals.plos.org/plosbiology/ .

    Please note that corrections may take a couple of weeks to filter through the various RePEc services.

    IDEAS is a RePEc service. RePEc uses bibliographic data supplied by the respective publishers.