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Stuart A. West
Researcher at University of Oxford
Publications - 302
Citations - 29715
Stuart A. West is an academic researcher from University of Oxford. The author has contributed to research in topics: Sex allocation & Sex ratio. The author has an hindex of 82, co-authored 290 publications receiving 26982 citations. Previous affiliations of Stuart A. West include Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute & University of Edinburgh.
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Reciprocal Rewards Stabilize Cooperation in the Mycorrhizal Symbiosis
E. Toby Kiers,Marie Duhamel,Marie Duhamel,Yugandhar Beesetty,Yugandhar Beesetty,Jerry A. Mensah,Oscar Franken,Erik Verbruggen,Carl R. Fellbaum,George A. Kowalchuk,Miranda M. Hart,Alberto Bago,Todd M. Palmer,Stuart A. West,Philippe Vandenkoornhuyse,Jan Jansa,Heike Bücking +16 more
TL;DR: It is concluded that, unlike many other mutualisms, the symbiont cannot be “enslaved,” and the mutualism is evolutionarily stable because control is bidirectional, and partners offering the best rate of exchange are rewarded.
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Social semantics: altruism, cooperation, mutualism, strong reciprocity and group selection.
TL;DR: The aim here is to address issues of semantic confusion that have arisen with research on the problem of cooperation, and to emphasize the need to distinguish between proximate (mechanism) and ultimate (survival value) explanations of behaviours.
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Social evolution theory for microorganisms
TL;DR: A conceptual overview of the different mechanisms through which cooperative behaviours can be stabilized is provided, emphasizing the aspects most relevant to microorganisms, the novel problems that microorganisms pose and the new insights that can be gained from applying evolutionary theory to micro organisms.
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Cooperation and competition in pathogenic bacteria
TL;DR: The results show that higher levels of cooperative siderophore production evolve in the higher relatedness treatments, but that more local competition selects for lower levels of siderophile production, and that there is a significant interaction between relatedness and the scale of competition.
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Evolutionary Explanations for Cooperation
TL;DR: A theoretical framework that can explain cooperation at all levels of biological organisation is developed and how it may be applied to real organisms is illustrated and future directions are discussed.