Trade-offs between competition and defense specialists among unicellular planktonic organisms: The "killing the winner" hypothesis revisited

Microbiology and Molecular Biology Reviews

Volumn 74, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 42-57

  Winter, Christian ^a   Bouvier, Thierry ^b   Weinbauer, Markus G ^c   Thingstad, T Frede ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF VIENNA   (Austria)

^b UNIV MONTPELLIER   (France)

^c LABORATOIRE D OCÉANOGRAPHIE DE VILLEFRANCHE   (France)

^d UNIVERSITY OF BERGEN   (Norway)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

RNA 16S;

ENVIRONMENTAL FACTOR; HOST RESISTANCE; HYPOTHESIS; KILLING THE WINNER HYPOTHESIS; MATHEMATICAL COMPUTING; NONHUMAN; OBSERVATIONAL STUDY; PLANKTON; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PROKARYOTE; PROTISTAN COMMUNITY; PROTOZOON; REVIEW; VIRUS CELL INTERACTION; VIRUS INFECTION; VIRUS RESISTANCE;

ENVIRONMENT; FOOD CHAIN; MICROBIAL INTERACTIONS; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; PLANKTON; PROKARYOTIC CELLS; VIRUSES;

MASTIGOPHORA (FLAGELLATES); PROKARYOTA; PROTOZOA;

EID: 77749309301     PISSN: 10922172     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/MMBR.00034-09     Document Type: Review

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