Sentence examples for cooperators from from inspiring English sources

Indeed, T. thermophila shows kin-recognition and kin-recruitment among cooperative strains which can both protect cooperators from invasion by cheaters as well as encourage cooperation among genetically similar individuals after a dispersal event (unpublished data).

This simple, high-accuracy means of telling cooperators from free riders is a vital tool for any community where people share a common resource, from an artists' collective to an army unit - or a suburban cul-de-sac.

In contrast, in mutator populations, the foothold established by these early cheats creates a niche for other cheat mutants which have little ability to invade cooperators from rare, but high ability to persist in a population where cheats are already common; in other words, 'coloniser' cheats are replaced by 'persister' cheats and a stable high frequency of cheats is maintained.

At the same time, swifter defectors prevent cooperators from wiping them out.

Larvae were collected between May and September 2006, with the exception of those collected from AZ. Cooperators from the University of Arizona made the collections from AZ during November 2006.

Our work suggests that any argument on partner recognition in a system that is intrinsically spatial (such as legume and rhizobia and fig and colonizing fig wasp) will require identifying variants that fail to distinguish cooperators from cheaters.

It has been suggested that negative feelings towards high cooperators stem from the fact that these individuals violate group norms and establish undesirable standards of cooperation, which make the contributions of others look less impressive by comparison [ 18– 20].

In this case, "common goods" – glucose and fructose generated from invertase produced and released from cooperators and not cheaters – are "privatized" to a certain extent so that cooperators have preferential access to the common goods they produced (Gore et al. 2009).

In contrast, defectors are individuals who do not engage in such cooperative behavior, which allows them to obtain benefits from cooperators while avoiding costs to themselves.

First, even if it is true that unconditional cooperators will benefit from preferential interaction and hence network clustering, conditional cooperation is known to cut both ways, leading as easily to defection as to cooperation [15].

On the one hand, cooperation thrives if individuals are able to promptly adjust their social ties, because this allows cooperators to escape from defectors [38].