The Bacteria Can Cheat On Their Mates

Pursuing our own short term interests by cheating on the rest of the population is not the preserve of the human race. It seems bacteria can operate in just the same way. Writing in the journal Nature, scientists from The University of Nottingham and The University of Edinburgh say bacteria have another trait that might be familiar to us cooperating for the good of their own family. [click link for full article]

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Filed under: Biology on December 2nd, 2007