Black Queen Hypothesis, partial privatization, and quorum sensing evolution

• Lucas Santana Souza,

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

  Affiliation Department of Ecology & Evolutionary Biology, University of Tennessee, Knoxville, Tennessee, United States of America

  https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8193-8556

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• Yasuhiko Irie,

  Roles Supervision, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Physics, Chemistry, and Biology, Linköping University, Linköping, Sweden

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• Shigetoshi Eda

  Roles Supervision, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: seda@utk.edu

  Affiliations Department of Forestry, Wildlife and Fisheries, University of Tennessee Institute of Agriculture, Knoxville, Tennessee, United States of America, Department of Microbiology, University of Tennessee, Knoxville, Tennessee, United States of America

  https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9519-1174

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