Character Displacement Promotes Cooperation in Bacterial Biofilms

Current Biology

Volumn 16, Issue 20, 2006, Pages 2030-2034

  Brockhurst, Michael A ^a,b   Hochberg, Michael E ^b   Bell, Thomas ^c   Buckling, Angus ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LIVERPOOL   (United Kingdom)

^b INSTITUT DES SCIENCES DE L EVOLUTION   (France)

^c UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL COUNT; BIOFILM; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; COMPARATIVE STUDY; COOPERATION; GENETIC SELECTION; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; PHYSIOLOGY; POPULATION DYNAMICS; PSEUDOMONAS FLUORESCENS;

BIOFILMS; COLONY COUNT, MICROBIAL; COOPERATIVE BEHAVIOR; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; POPULATION DYNAMICS; PSEUDOMONAS FLUORESCENS; SELECTION (GENETICS); SELECTION, GENETIC;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); PSEUDOMONAS FLUORESCENS;

EID: 33750024985     PISSN: 09609822     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cub.2006.08.068     Document Type: Article

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