Environmental viscosity does not affect the evolution of cooperation during experimental evolution of colicigenic bacteria

Evolution

Volumn 64, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 522-533

  Le Gac, Mickael ^a   Doebeli, Michael ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

Author keywords

Altruism; Cooperator; Defector; Experimental evolution; Interference competition

Indexed keywords

COLICIN; PRIMER DNA;

ALTRUISM; COEVOLUTION; COMPETITION (ECOLOGY); COOPERATIVE BEHAVIOR; ENVIRONMENTAL CONDITIONS; FITNESS; GENOTYPE; MICROBIAL ACTIVITY; MUTATION; TOXIN;

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENE; BACTERIUM; BIOSYNTHESIS; EVOLUTION; GENETICS; METABOLISM; MUTATION; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; VISCOSITY;

BACTERIA; BASE SEQUENCE; COLICINS; DNA PRIMERS; EVOLUTION; GENES, BACTERIAL; MUTATION; VISCOSITY;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS);

EID: 75149130166     PISSN: 00143820     EISSN: 15585646     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1558-5646.2009.00814.x     Document Type: Article

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