Privatisation rescues function following loss of cooperation.

Also, while Figure 5 indicates that the phu-wt allele has a growth advantage in 5uM, Appendix 1—figure 7 shows that all the statistically significant (or marginally significant) effects in specific pairs, go on the other direction – phu+ grow better than phu-wt.

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Limited diffusion of secreted pyoverdine, as is likely in viscous CF sputum, impairs the ability of potential cheats to exploit and may contribute to stabilize cooperation in these lineages ( Julou et al., 2013 ; Kummerli et al., 2009 ); although there may be significant exchange between spatially distinct microcolonies ( Weigert and Kümmerli, 2017 ).

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