Social Evolution: This Microbe Will Self-Destruct

Current Biology

Volumn 18, Issue 21, 2008, Pages

  Gardner, Andy ^a   Kümmerli, Rolf ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL; EVOLUTION; GENETIC SELECTION; GENETICS; MOUSE; PHENOTYPE; SALMONELLA TYPHIMURIUM; SHORT SURVEY;

ANIMALS; EVOLUTION; MICE; PHENOTYPE; SALMONELLA TYPHIMURIUM; SELECTION (GENETICS);

EID: 55249097243     PISSN: 09609822     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cub.2008.09.003     Document Type: Short Survey

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