Self-destructive cooperation mediated by phenotypic noise

Nature

Volumn 454, Issue 7207, 2008, Pages 987-990

  Ackermann, Martin ^a   Stecher, Bärbel ^a   Freed, Nikki E ^a   Songhet, Pascal ^a   Hardt, Wolf Dietrich ^a   Doebeli, Michael ^b  

^a ETH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

PNEUMOLYSIN; VIRULENCE FACTOR;

BACTERIUM; GENE EXPRESSION; PATHOGENICITY; PHENOTYPE;

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL COLONIZATION; BACTERIAL INFECTION; BACTERIOLYSIS; CLOSTRIDIUM DIFFICILE; DESTRUCTION; ENTERITIS; ENTEROCOLITIS; GENETIC CODE; GENOTYPE; IN VITRO STUDY; NOISE; NONHUMAN; PATHOGENESIS; PHENOTYPE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; SALMONELLA TYPHIMURIUM; SOCIAL ENVIRONMENT; STREPTOCOCCUS PNEUMONIAE; TYPE III SECRETION SYSTEM;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); SALMONELLA TYPHIMURIUM;

EID: 50049132233     PISSN: 00280836     EISSN: 14764687     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nature07067     Document Type: Article

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