Social evolution in micro-organisms and a Trojan horse approach to medical intervention strategies

Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences

Volumn 364, Issue 1533, 2009, Pages 3157-3168

  Brown, Sam P ^a   West, Stuart A ^a   Diggle, Stephen P ^b   Griffin, Ashleigh S ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NOTTINGHAM   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Altruism; Bacteriocins; Cheat; Cooperation; Spite; Virulence

Indexed keywords

ALLELE; ALLELOPATHY; ALTRUISM; BACTERIAL DISEASE; BIOTECHNOLOGY; CHEATING BEHAVIOR; COOPERATIVE BEHAVIOR; DISEASE TREATMENT; EUSOCIALITY; EVOLUTIONARY BIOLOGY; POPULATION DYNAMICS; VIRULENCE;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); EQUIDAE;

EID: 72649093654     PISSN: 09628436     EISSN: 14712970     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rstb.2009.0055     Document Type: Review

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