Viscous medium promotes cooperation in the pathogenic bacterium Pseudomonas aeruginosa

Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences

Volumn 276, Issue 1672, 2009, Pages 3531-3538

  Kümmerli, Rolf ^a   Griffin, Ashleigh S ^a,b   West, Stuart A ^a,b   Buckling, Angus ^b   Harrison, Freya ^b,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^c University of Bath   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Cooperation; Kin selection; Limited dispersal; Population structure; Public good; Siderophores

Indexed keywords

IRON; SIDEROPHORE;

BACTERIUM; COOPERATIVE BEHAVIOR; DISPERSAL; FITNESS; KIN SELECTION; MUTATION; PATHOGEN; POPULATION STRUCTURE; PUBLIC GOODS; SIDEROPHORE; VISCOSITY;

ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL CELL; BACTERIAL GROWTH; BACTERIUM CULTURE; BACTERIUM MUTANT; CONTROLLED STUDY; CULTURE MEDIUM; DIFFUSION; HABITAT; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PSEUDOMONAS AERUGINOSA; VISCOSITY; WILD TYPE;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); PSEUDOMONAS AERUGINOSA;

CULTURE MEDIA; PSEUDOMONAS AERUGINOSA; SIDEROPHORES; VISCOSITY;

EID: 70349622980     PISSN: 09628452     EISSN: 14712970     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rspb.2009.0861     Document Type: Article

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