Local migration promotes competitive restraint in a host-pathogen 'tragedy of the commons'

Nature

Volumn 442, Issue 7098, 2006, Pages 75-78

  Kerr, Benjamin ^a   Neuhauser, Claudia ^b   Bohannan, Brendan J M ^c   Dean, Antony M ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA   (United States)

^c STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTERIOLOGY; ECOLOGY; ESCHERICHIA COLI;

LOCAL MIGRATION; PATHOGENS; RECOLONIZATIONS; UNRESTRICTED MIGRATION;

PATHOLOGY;

BACTERIUM; COEXISTENCE; EVOLUTION; HOST-PATHOGEN INTERACTION; MIGRATION; PATCHINESS; VIRUS;

ARTICLE; BACTERIOPHAGE T4; CELL SUBPOPULATION; ESCHERICHIA COLI; HOST PATHOGEN INTERACTION; MICROFLORA; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; NONHUMAN; PATHOGENESIS; POPULATION MIGRATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; VIRUS VIRULENCE;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); ESCHERICHIA COLI;

EID: 33745981794     PISSN: 00280836     EISSN: 14764687     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nature04864     Document Type: Article

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