Microbial communication, cooperation and cheating: Quorum sensing drives the evolution of cooperation in bacteria

PLoS ONE

Volumn 4, Issue 8, 2009, Pages

  Czárán, Tamás ^a   Hoekstra, Rolf F ^b  

^a EÖTVÖS LORÁND UNIVERSITY   (Hungary)

^b WAGENINGEN UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL CHEATING; BACTERIAL COOPERATION; BACTERIAL GENE; BACTERIAL MUTATION; BACTERIAL PHENOMENA AND FUNCTIONS; BACTERIAL STRAIN; BACTERIAL VIRULENCE; GENE EXPRESSION; MOLECULAR CLONING; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; NONHUMAN; QUORUM SENSING; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; BACTERIUM; EVOLUTION; GENETICS; MUTATION;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS);

BACTERIA; BACTERIAL PHYSIOLOGICAL PHENOMENA; EVOLUTION; GENES, BACTERIAL; MUTATION; QUORUM SENSING;

EID: 68949159749     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0006655     Document Type: Article

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