Evolutionary theory of bacterial quorum sensing: When is a signal not a signal?

Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences

Volumn 362, Issue 1483, 2007, Pages 1241-1249

  Diggle, Stephen P ^a   Gardner, Andy ^b,c   West, Stuart A ^b   Griffin, Ashleigh S ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NOTTINGHAM   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

^c QUEEN S UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Coercion; Cooperation; Cue; Quorum sensing; Signalling

Indexed keywords

BACTERIUM; DIFFUSION; EVOLUTIONARY THEORY; INTERSPECIFIC INTERACTION; INTRASPECIFIC INTERACTION; KIN SELECTION;

ANIMALIA; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS);

EID: 34447573972     PISSN: 09628436     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rstb.2007.2049     Document Type: Review

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