Natural history note: Spiteful interactions in a natural population of the bacterium xenorhabdus bovienii

American Naturalist

Volumn 175, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 374-381

  Hawlena, Hadas ^a   Bashey, Farrah ^a   Mendes Soares, Helena ^a   Lively, Curtis M ^a  

^a INDIANA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Bacteriocins; Coinfection; Entomopathogenic bacterium; Genotypic variability; Spatial scale

Indexed keywords

BACTERIUM; ENTOMOPATHOGENIC ORGANISM; GENETIC DIFFERENTIATION; INHIBITION; INTERSPECIFIC INTERACTION; NEMATODE; POPULATION DENSITY; SPATIAL ANALYSIS; SPECIES DIVERSITY; STRAIN RATE; TOXIN;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); XENORHABDUS; XENORHABDUS BOVIENII;

BACTERIOCIN;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GENETICS; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; METABOLISM; MICROBIOLOGY; MOTH; NEMATODE; PARASITOLOGY; XENORHABDUS;

ANIMALS; BACTERIOCINS; GENETIC VARIATION; MOTHS; NEMATODA; XENORHABDUS;

EID: 77949538047     PISSN: 00030147     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1086/650375     Document Type: Article

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