Niche occupation limits adaptive radiation in experimental microcosms

PLoS ONE

Volumn 2, Issue 2, 2007, Pages

  Brockhurst, Michael A ^a   Colegrave, Nick ^b   Hodgson, David J ^c   Buckling, Angus ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LIVERPOOL   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF EXETER   (United Kingdom)

^d UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADAPTIVE RADIATION; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GROWTH; BACTERIAL STRAIN; ECOLOGICAL NICHE; EXPERIMENTAL STUDY; MICROBIAL DIVERSITY; MICROCOSM; MORPHOTYPE; NONHUMAN; PSEUDOMONAS FLUORESCENS; BACTERIAL COUNT; BIODIVERSITY; CELL CLONE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; ECOSYSTEM; MICROBIOLOGICAL EXAMINATION; ORGANISMAL INTERACTION; PHENOTYPE; PHYSIOLOGY; SPECIES DIFFERENCE;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); PSEUDOMONAS FLUORESCENS;

BACTERIOLOGICAL TECHNIQUES; BIODIVERSITY; CLONE CELLS; COLONY COUNT, MICROBIAL; ECOSYSTEM; MICROBIAL INTERACTIONS; PHENOTYPE; PSEUDOMONAS FLUORESCENS; SPECIES SPECIFICITY;

EID: 34247371700     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0000193     Document Type: Article

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