Evolution of cooperation and conflict in experimental bacterial populations

Nature

Volumn 425, Issue 6953, 2003, Pages 72-74

  Rainey, Paul B ^a,b   Rainey, Katrina ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF AUCKLAND   (New Zealand)

^c NONE   (New Zealand)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTERIA; CELLS; GENETIC ENGINEERING; POLYMERS; POPULATION STATISTICS;

MULTICELLULAR LIFE FORMS;

MICROBIOLOGY;

OXYGEN; POLYMER;

BACTERIUM; EVOLUTIONARY BIOLOGY;

ARTICLE; BACTERIUM; CELL ADHESION; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CELL VIABILITY; CONFLICT; COOPERATION; CULTURE MEDIUM; ECOLOGICAL NICHE; EVOLUTION; GENETIC SUSCEPTIBILITY; GENOTYPE; INDIVIDUALITY; KIN SELECTION; MICROCOSM; NONHUMAN; POPULATION DIFFERENTIATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PSEUDOMONAS FLUORESCENS; THEORY;

BACTERIAL ADHESION; BIOPOLYMERS; CELL AGGREGATION; EVOLUTION; GENOTYPE; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; MUTATION; PSEUDOMONAS FLUORESCENS; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); NEGIBACTERIA; PSEUDOMONAS; PSEUDOMONAS FLUORESCENS;

EID: 0042410586     PISSN: 00280836     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nature01906     Document Type: Article

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