Cooperation: Bridging Ecology and Sociobiology

Current Biology

Volumn 17, Issue 9, 2007, Pages

  Foster, Kevin R ^a   Xavier, Joao B ^a  

^a HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL; BIOFILM; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; COOPERATION; ECOLOGY; ENVIRONMENT; EVOLUTION; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; PSEUDOMONAS FLUORESCENS; SHORT SURVEY; SOCIOBIOLOGY;

ANIMALS; BIOFILMS; COOPERATIVE BEHAVIOR; ECOLOGY; ENVIRONMENT; EVOLUTION; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; PSEUDOMONAS FLUORESCENS; SOCIOBIOLOGY;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS);

EID: 34247346568     PISSN: 09609822     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cub.2007.03.005     Document Type: Short Survey

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