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Reciprocal Fitness Feedbacks Promote the Evolution of Mutualistic Cooperation.
Current Biology ( IF 8.1 ) Pub Date : 2020-07-23 , DOI: 10.1016/j.cub.2020.06.100
Daniel Preussger 1 , Samir Giri 1 , Linéa K Muhsal 2 , Leonardo Oña 2 , Christian Kost 1
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Mutually beneficial interactions are ubiquitous in nature and have played a pivotal role for the evolution of life on earth. However, the factors facilitating their emergence remain poorly understood. Here, we address this issue both experimentally and by mathematical modeling using cocultures of auxotrophic strains of Escherichia coli, whose growth depends on a reciprocal exchange of amino acids. Coevolving auxotrophic pairs in a spatially heterogeneous environment for less than 150 generations transformed the initial interaction that was merely based on an exchange of metabolic byproducts into a costly metabolic cooperation, in which both partners increased the amounts of metabolites they produced to benefit their corresponding partner. The observed changes were afforded by the formation of multicellular clusters, within which increased cooperative investments were favored by positive fitness feedbacks among interacting genotypes. Under these conditions, non-cooperative individuals were less fit than cooperative mutants. Together, our results highlight the ease with which mutualistic cooperation can evolve, suggesting similar mechanisms likely operate in natural communities.

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更新日期:2020-09-21
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