Cooperation and conflict in quorum-sensing bacterial populations

Nature

Volumn 450, Issue 7168, 2007, Pages 411-414

  Diggle, Stephen P ^a   Griffin, Ashleigh S ^b   Campbell, Genevieve S ^a   West, Stuart A ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NOTTINGHAM   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMMUNICATION BEHAVIOR; COOPERATIVE BEHAVIOR; KIN SELECTION; MICROBIAL COMMUNITY; PATHOGEN; SIGNAL;

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL CELL; BACTERIUM DETECTION; BEHAVIOR; CELL INTERACTION; CONTROLLED STUDY; KIN SELECTION; MICROBIAL POPULATION DYNAMICS; NONHUMAN; PATHOGENESIS; PREDICTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PSEUDOMONAS AERUGINOSA; QUORUM SENSING; SOCIAL EVOLUTION;

ANIMALIA; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); PSEUDOMONAS AERUGINOSA;

EID: 36248965729     PISSN: 00280836     EISSN: 14764687     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nature06279     Document Type: Article

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