Bacteriocins, spite and virulence

Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences

Volumn 271, Issue 1547, 2004, Pages 1529-1535

  Gardner, Andy ^a   West, Stuart A ^a   Buckling, Angus ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

^b University of Bath   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Hamiltonian spite; Interference competition; Negative relatedness; Neighbour modulated fitness; Scale of competition; Social evolution

Indexed keywords

BACTERIOCIN;

COMPETITION (ECOLOGY); COOPERATIVE BEHAVIOR; HOST-PARASITE INTERACTION; SOCIAL PARASITISM; VIRULENCE;

ARTICLE; CHEMICAL WARFARE; EVOLUTION; MICROORGANISM; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; MOLECULAR MODEL; NONHUMAN; PARASITE VIRULENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; THEORETICAL MODEL;

EID: 3242738583     PISSN: 09628452     EISSN: 14712970     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rspb.2004.2756     Document Type: Article

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