Population dynamics constrain the cooperative evolution of cross-feeding

PLoS ONE

Volumn 4, Issue 1, 2009, Pages

  Bull, James J ^a   Harcombe, William R ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; ARTIFICIAL SELECTION; COOPERATIVE CROSS FEEDING; EVOLUTION; MATHEMATICAL COMPUTING; MICROBIAL DIVERSITY; MICROBIAL GROWTH; MICROBIAL METABOLISM; MICROBIAL POPULATION DYNAMICS; NONHUMAN; ALGORITHM; ANIMAL; COOPERATION; FEEDING BEHAVIOR; GENETIC SELECTION; HUMAN; MICROBIOLOGICAL PHENOMENA AND FUNCTIONS;

ALGORITHMS; ANIMALS; COOPERATIVE BEHAVIOR; EVOLUTION; FEEDING BEHAVIOR; HUMANS; MICROBIOLOGICAL PHENOMENA; SELECTION (GENETICS);

EID: 58149458887     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0004115     Document Type: Article

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