Antibiotic-mediated antagonism leads to a bacterial game of rock-paper-scissors in vivo

Nature

Volumn 428, Issue 6981, 2004, Pages 412-414

  Kirkup, Benjamin C ^a   Riley, Margaret A ^a  

^a YALE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT; ESCHERICHIA COLI; ROCKS; STRAIN;

COLICINS; ROCK-PAPER-SCISSORS (RPS);

ANTIBIOTICS;

ANTIBIOTIC AGENT; COLICIN;

MEDICINE;

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL STRAIN; CONTROLLED STUDY; EQUILIBRIUM CONSTANT; ESCHERICHIA COLI; IN VIVO STUDY; MALE; MICROBIAL DIVERSITY; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PHENOTYPE; PREDICTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STRAIN DIFFERENCE;

ANIMALS; ANTI-BACTERIAL AGENTS; COLICINS; COLON; DRUG RESISTANCE, BACTERIAL; ESCHERICHIA COLI; FECES; GAME THEORY; HOUSING, ANIMAL; MALE; MICE; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; STREPTOMYCIN;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); ESCHERICHIA COLI; NEGIBACTERIA;

EID: 1842525243     PISSN: 00280836     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nature02429     Document Type: Article

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