Multicellular behavior in bacteria: Communication, cooperation, competition and cheating

BioEssays

Volumn 30, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 296-298

  Dunny, Gary M ^a,b   Brickman, Timothy J ^a   Dworkin, Martin ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA   (United States)

^b MMC 196420 ^*  (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL CELL; BACTERIAL GENE; BACTERIAL GROWTH; BACTERIAL STRAIN; BACTERIUM CULTURE; BACTERIUM MUTANT; CELL COMMUNICATION; COCULTURE; GROWTH RATE; HORIZONTAL GENE TRANSFER; INTERSPECIFIC COMPETITION; KIN SELECTION; MICROBIAL ACTIVITY; MICROBIAL POPULATION DYNAMICS; NONHUMAN; PSEUDOMONAS AERUGINOSA; QUORUM SENSING; SHORT SURVEY; WILD TYPE;

BACTERIA; BACTERIAL PHYSIOLOGY; BIOFILMS; CELL COMMUNICATION; COLONY COUNT, MICROBIAL; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, BACTERIAL; MICROBIOLOGICAL TECHNIQUES; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; MUTATION; PSEUDOMONAS AERUGINOSA;

MYXOCOCCALES; PSEUDOMONAS AERUGINOSA;

EID: 41649106225     PISSN: 02659247     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/bies.20740     Document Type: Short Survey

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