Paper 8 June 2022

Evolution-proof inhibitors of public good cooperation: a screening strategy inspired by social evolution theory

Congratulations to Maries, Mathieu and Bram for their review/methods paper in FEMS Microbiology Reviews! In this paper we provide an extensive evaluation of factors that determine the evolutionary robustness of public good inhibiting strategies. We use the outcome of this analysis to propose a 5-step strategy that allows to identify novel evolution-proof antimicrobial strategies targeting public goods and that takes potential pitfalls already into account in the first stages of screening.