Bottleneck size drives the evolution of cooperative traits in an aggregative multicellular myxobacterium

Jyotsna Kalathera; Prakhar Jaiswal; Neha Mandal; Vishwa Patel; Vishwesha Guttal; Sandeep Krishna; Samay Pande

doi:10.1371/journal.pbio.3003499

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Bottleneck size drives the evolution of cooperative traits in an aggregative multicellular myxobacterium

Jyotsna Kalathera ,

Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

* E-mail: jyotsnak@iisc.ac.in (JK); samayrp@gmail.com (SP)

Affiliation Bacterial Ecology and Evolution group, Department of Microbiology and Cell Biology, Indian Institute of Science, Bengaluru, India

https://orcid.org/0009-0009-4894-0919

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Prakhar Jaiswal,

Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Validation, Visualization

Affiliation Theoretical Ecology and Evolution laboratory, Centre for Ecological Sciences, Indian Institute of Science, Bengaluru, India
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Neha Mandal,

Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Validation

Affiliation Bacterial Ecology and Evolution group, Department of Microbiology and Cell Biology, Indian Institute of Science, Bengaluru, India
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Vishwa Patel,

Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Validation

Affiliation Bacterial Ecology and Evolution group, Department of Microbiology and Cell Biology, Indian Institute of Science, Bengaluru, India
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Vishwesha Guttal,

Roles Conceptualization, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Theoretical Ecology and Evolution laboratory, Centre for Ecological Sciences, Indian Institute of Science, Bengaluru, India
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Sandeep Krishna,

Roles Conceptualization, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Simons Centre for the Study of Living Machines, National Centre for Biological Sciences-TIFR, Bengaluru, India
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Samay Pande

Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

* E-mail: jyotsnak@iisc.ac.in (JK); samayrp@gmail.com (SP)

Affiliation Bacterial Ecology and Evolution group, Department of Microbiology and Cell Biology, Indian Institute of Science, Bengaluru, India

https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4897-3923

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Bottleneck size drives the evolution of cooperative traits in an aggregative multicellular myxobacterium

Jyotsna Kalathera,
Prakhar Jaiswal,
Neha Mandal,
Vishwa Patel,
Vishwesha Guttal,
Sandeep Krishna,
Samay Pande

Published: January 6, 2026
https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pbio.3003499

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