Is “Wolf‐Pack” Predation by Antimicrobial Bacteria Cooperative? Cell Behaviour and Predatory Mechanisms Indicate Profound Selfishness, Even when Working Alongside Kin

摘要: For decades, myxobacteria have been spotlighted as exemplars of social "wolf-pack" predation, communally secreting antimicrobial substances into the shared public milieu. This behavior has described cooperative, becoming more efficient if performed by cells. However, laboratory evidence for cooperativity is limited and little relevance to predation in a natural setting. In contrast, there accumulating predatory mechanisms promoting "selfish" during which together with conflicting definitions cooperativity, casts doubt on whether microbial really cooperative. Here, it hypothesized that public-goods-mediated not argued holistic model needed, accounting predator prey relatedness, phenotypes, spatial organization, activity/specificity/transport secreted toxins, resistance mechanisms. Filling such gaps our knowledge vital evolutionary benefits potentially costly behaviors mediated goods are be properly understood.