Publish Date: 10.12.2021
Category: News from the University
Nepotism in the workplace and in politics is a common topic of sensationalist media interest. However, nepotism or kin discrimination is also present in many animal species; it serves to stabilize cooperative behaviours and consequently promotes progeny and species survival. Researchers at the Biotechnical Faculty, University of Ljubljana, have shown that kin discrimination also affects territorial exclusion during surface colonization in the environmentally and commercially important bacterium Bacillus subtilis.
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