Pleiotropy and synergistic cooperation

by David C. Queller

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 favoure d on its own.

Source: PLoS Biology: Archived Table of Contents - June 20, 2019 Category: Biology Authors: David C. Queller Source Type: research