Reading Assignment for April 29

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Jeff Gore, Hyun Youk & Alexander van Oudenaarden. 2009. Snowdrift game dynamics and facultative cheating in yeast. Nature (advance online publication 6 April 2009 | doi:10.1038/nature07921). Plus Suppl Info!

Please read the whole paper, and come prepared to present and discuss the section to which you are assigned (see below). Also read Materials & Methods relevant to your bit, and check out the Supplementary Info as needed. If you will not be able to attend on Wednesday at 1:25, please let Kathie know so she can reassign your section.

Assignments:

Paragraphs 1, 2 (Yeast prefers...strategies to survive) Tiffany
Paragraphs 3, 4 (To explore...for coexistence) Shawn
Paragraphs 5 (When the...by cooperation) Christine
Paragraphs 6, 7 (Our experimental...and cheaters) Dan
Paragraph 8 (Coexistence of...our competition experiments) Marin
Paragraphs 9, 10 (The sublinear...in the media) Bradford
Paragraph 11 (Similar to...alternative strategies) Omer
Paragraphs 12, 13 (Our results...snowdrift game) Stephen

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