Comments on: Wolves, Bacteria and Cheaters

By: Carnival of Evolution #22 « Beetles In The Bush

Carnival of Evolution #22 « Beetles In The Bush — Fri, 02 Apr 2010 22:39:33 +0000

[...] Lucas Brouwers at Thoughtomics discusses a paper that studied cheaters among bacteria in his post, Wolves, Bacteria and Cheaters. Population dynamics between cheaters and cooperators are much easier to study in prokaryotes [...]

By: ResearchBlogging.org News » Blog Archive » Exploitation Nation: Cheating Microbes, Parasites, and Your Colon

Thu, 11 Mar 2010 17:54:18 +0000

[...] Thoughtomics discussed the tricky strategies of cheating bacteria. Rule #1 – never play poker with Pseudomonas. [...]

By: Lucas

Lucas — Tue, 09 Mar 2010 09:20:54 +0000

I was unfamiliar with the term Coopetition, but I guess the analogy between cooperating/competing companies and organisms holds on many levels. I'm always a bit hesitant in drawing parallels between biological findings and societal/economic models though, but it should be no surprise that sharing resources could be advantageous to all parties involved. My gut feeling is that 'coopetition' is much more abundant in nature than in the economic world though ;).

By: David Merkel

David Merkel — Mon, 08 Mar 2010 18:49:09 +0000

The argument here is like many of the strategies in Co-opetition.

By: Lab Rat

Lab Rat — Mon, 08 Mar 2010 12:12:09 +0000

Great post and thanks for the link! My project finishes soon, along with lab meetings with the lab-next-door (where their studying Pseudomonas and biofilms) and I’m going to miss hearing about them.