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. 2009 Nov 12;364(1533):3157–3168. doi: 10.1098/rstb.2009.0055

Table 1.

A classification of social strategies by their conjectured strengths.

strategy favoured by
cheat unstructured populations, more highly diffusible exoproducts, more costly exoproducts, lower specificity in exoproduct uptake
Trojan horse cheat as above, and with low cost or high benefit associated with Trojan horse trait
Trojan horse cooperator structured populations, less diffusible exoproducts, less costly exoproducts, higher specificity in exoproduct uptake
bacteriocin cheat structured populations (if low cheat advantage), more diffusible bacteriocins, higher specificity in bacteriocin immunity, low cost or high benefit associated with any Trojan horse trait
lysogen cheat unstructured populations, durable phage propagules, low cost or high benefit associated with any Trojan horse trait