Glucose-starved yeast poisons neighboring microorganisms as well as its own clones
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https://phys.org/news/2022-11-glucose-starved-yeast-poisons-neighboring-microorganisms.html
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https://phys.org/news/2022-11-glucose-starved-yeast-poisons-neighboring-microorganisms.html
Sal@mander.xyz 1 year ago
Very interesting!
I don't follow the line of argument about the comparison between cheaters in populations that use the 'toxin-antitoxin' strategy and cheaters in populations that use this newly proposed 'latecomer' strategy.
In the discussion of the paper, they write:
In the latecomer strategy you also have members that will produce the toxin (which is burdensome) and 'cheaters' that are adapted but do not produce the toxic molecules. The claim made is that the adaptation system can be turned off without the toxin, but they don't explain why this can't be the same for the anti-toxin system. I appreciate the differences during the initial stages of the population adapting, but in my opinion both strategies converge towards a similar type of population - and both are susceptible to cheating in the same way.