Strategies of microbial cheater control

Trends in Microbiology

Volumn 12, Issue 2, 2004, Pages 72-78

  Travisano, Michael ^a   Velicer, Gregory J ^b  

^a University of Houston   (United States)

^b MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR DEVELOPMENTAL BIOLOGY   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

VIRULENCE FACTOR;

AUTOLYSIS; BIOFILM; CELL LINEAGE; CELL MATURATION; CYTOLYSIS; DICTYOSTELIUM; EUKARYOTE; FRUITING BODY; MICROBIAL GROWTH; MICROBIAL METABOLISM; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; MORPHOGENESIS; MYXOCOCCALES; MYXOCOCCUS XANTHUS; NONHUMAN; NUTRIENT UPTAKE; PHENOTYPE; POPULATION DENSITY; POPULATION SIZE; POPULATION STRUCTURE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PSEUDOMONAS FLUORESCENS; REVIEW; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR; SPECIES DIFFERENCE; SPOROGENESIS;

DICTYOSTELIUM; EUKARYOTA; MYXOCOCCALES; MYXOCOCCUS XANTHUS; PSEUDOMONAS; PSEUDOMONAS FLUORESCENS; SACCHAROMYCES; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE;

EID: 0842303267     PISSN: 0966842X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.tim.2003.12.009     Document Type: Article

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