Oscillations in continuous culture populations of Streptococcus pneumoniae: Population dynamics and the evolution of clonal suicide

Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences

Volumn 276, Issue 1659, 2009, Pages 999-1008

  Cornejo, Omar E ^a   Rozen, Daniel E ^a,b   May, Robert M ^c   Levin, Bruce R ^a  

^a EMORY UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MANCHESTER   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Allelopathy; Chemostats; Evolution; Mathematical models; Population dynamics; Streptococcus pneumoniae

Indexed keywords

ALLELOPATHY; BACTERIUM; CATALYSIS; CLONE; EVOLUTION; EXPERIMENTAL STUDY; NUMERICAL MODEL; POPULATION DYNAMICS; TOXIN;

STREPTOCOCCUS; STREPTOCOCCUS PNEUMONIAE;

EID: 60049088641     PISSN: 09628452     EISSN: 14712970     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rspb.2008.1415     Document Type: Article

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