Cooperative social clusters are not destroyed by dispersal in a ciliate
<p>Abstract</p> <p>Background</p> <p>The evolution of social cooperation is favored by aggregative behavior to facilitate stable social structure and proximity among kin. High dispersal rates reduce group stability and kin cohesion, so it is generally assumed that there...
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| Format: | Article |
| Language: | English |
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BMC
2009-10-01
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| Series: | BMC Evolutionary Biology |
| Online Access: | http://www.biomedcentral.com/1471-2148/9/251 |