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This leads to the following testable prediction for binary cooperative traits (i.e., where individuals either cooperate or cheat): the fitness of cooperators and by extension the frequency of cooperators within the population should increase with increasing resource supply.

In our model and others [ 20], losses of recognition locus diversity were often followed by a decline in cooperation, but ants are likely prevented from losing cooperative traits by strong evolutionary constraints [ 65].

We experimentally tested this prediction using two bacterial cooperative traits.

Our model predicts that differential gene mobility drives intragenomic variation in investment in cooperative traits.

Therefore, our prediction is that cooperative traits should be preferably coded in the most mobilizable regions of genomes.

This further supports our model expectation that cooperative traits are encoded in regions that are highly mobile.

Indeed, by definition a reciprocal interaction provides a direct fitness benefit to the cooperators and this suggests that a cooperative trait will only be selected if the benefit to cooperate is higher than its cost.

By definition a cooperative trait carries a cost to cooperator of performing an altruistic act while providing a benefit to the recipient towards whom the cooperation is directed.

A key assumption of this model is that all plasmids carry the cooperative trait, so any act of infection will also increase cooperation.

The copositioning of mobile cooperative genes with addiction and restriction-modification complexes will act to further enhance the enforcement of cooperation on the chimeric bacterial individual, by punishing the loss of the cooperative trait.

I investigated the impact of population bottleneck size on the evolution of cheats experimentally using the cooperative trait of biofilm formation in Pseudomonas fluorescens [20], [22].