Publications by authors named "Jennifer Engelmoer"
Article Synopsis
- Conflict is significant in the evolution of social interactions, potentially increasing diversity and speeding up evolution, but its effects on the evolution of social genes are not well understood.
- A study of 67 Dictyostelium discoideum strains found that social genes show higher variations and accelerated evolution, but these changes are due to relaxed purifying selection rather than conflict.
- The findings suggest that social interactions’ conditional nature weakens selection pressure on these genes over generations, allowing genetic drift to play a more substantial role, a phenomenon termed the Red King process.
