Population mixing accelerates coevolution

Ecology Letters

Volumn 6, Issue 11, 2003, Pages 975-979

  Brockhurst, Michael A ^a   Morgan, Andrew D ^b   Rainey, Paul B ^a,c   Buckling, Angus ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^b University of Bath   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF AUCKLAND   (New Zealand)

Author keywords

Arms race; Bacteria; Bacteriophage; Experimental evolution; Infectivity; Resistance; Virulence

Indexed keywords

COEVOLUTION; EVOLUTIONARY THEORY; HOST-PARASITE INTERACTION; POPULATION STRUCTURE;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); PSEUDOMONAS; PSEUDOMONAS FLUORESCENS;

EID: 0242490194     PISSN: 1461023X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1461-0248.2003.00531.x     Document Type: Article

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