Population bottlenecks promote cooperation in bacterial biofilms

PLoS ONE

Volumn 2, Issue 7, 2007, Pages

  Brockhurst, Michael A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LIVERPOOL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL COUNT; BACTERIAL METABOLISM; BIOFILM; BOTTLENECK POPULATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; GENETIC SIMILARITY; GENETIC TRAIT; MICROBIAL POPULATION DYNAMICS; NONHUMAN; POPULATION SIZE; PREDICTION; PSEUDOMONAS FLUORESCENS; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR; CELL DIVISION; GENETICS; GENOTYPE; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; KINETICS; PHYSIOLOGY; POPULATION DENSITY; POPULATION DYNAMICS;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); PSEUDOMONAS FLUORESCENS;

BIOFILMS; CELL DIVISION; GENOTYPE; KINETICS; POPULATION DENSITY; POPULATION DYNAMICS; PSEUDOMONAS FLUORESCENS; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR;

EID: 39849091187     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0000634     Document Type: Article

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