Cooperation and the Fate of Microbial Societies

Benjamin Allen; Martin A. Nowak

doi:10.1371/journal.pbio.1001549

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Cooperation and the Fate of Microbial Societies

Benjamin Allen ,

* E-mail: allenb@emmanuel.edu

Affiliations Department of Mathematics, Emmanuel College, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America, Program for Evolutionary Dynamics, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States of America
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Martin A. Nowak

Affiliations Program for Evolutionary Dynamics, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States of America, Department of Mathematics, Department of Organismic and Evolutionary Biology, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States of America
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Cooperation and the Fate of Microbial Societies

Benjamin Allen,
Martin A. Nowak

Published: April 30, 2013
https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pbio.1001549

About the Authors

Benjamin Allen

* E-mail: allenb@emmanuel.edu

Affiliations Department of Mathematics, Emmanuel College, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America, Program for Evolutionary Dynamics, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States of America

Martin A. Nowak

Affiliations Program for Evolutionary Dynamics, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States of America, Department of Mathematics, Department of Organismic and Evolutionary Biology, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

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