Quorum Sensing and the Social Evolution of Bacterial Virulence

Current Biology

Volumn 19, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 341-345

  Rumbaugh, Kendra P ^a   Diggle, Stephen P ^b   Watters, Chase M ^a   Ross Gillespie, Adin ^c   Griffin, Ashleigh S ^c,d   West, Stuart A ^c,d  

^a TEXAS TECH UNIVERSITY HEALTH SCIENCES CENTER SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NOTTINGHAM   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

^d UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

EVO_ECOL

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; FEMALE; HUMAN; INJURY; LIVER; MICROBIOLOGY; MOUSE; PATHOGENICITY; PATHOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; PSEUDOMONAS AERUGINOSA; QUORUM SENSING; SKIN;

ANIMALS; FEMALE; HUMANS; LIVER; MICE; PSEUDOMONAS AERUGINOSA; QUORUM SENSING; SKIN; WOUNDS AND INJURIES;

ANIMALIA; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); PSEUDOMONAS AERUGINOSA;

EID: 60349109480     PISSN: 09609822     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cub.2009.01.050     Document Type: Article

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