Co-swarming and local collapse: Quorum sensing conveys resilience to bacterial communities by localizing cheater mutants in Pseudomonas aeruginosa

PLoS ONE

Volumn 5, Issue 4, 2010, Pages

  Venturi, Vittorio ^a   Bertani, Iris ^a   Kerényi, Ádám ^b   Netotea, Sergiu ^b   Pongor, Sándor ^a  

^a INTERNATIONAL CENTRE FOR GENETIC ENGINEERING AND BIOTECHNOLOGY   (Italy)

^b INSTITUTE OF BIOCHEMISTRY   (Hungary)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL STRAIN; BACTERIUM COLONY; BACTERIUM MUTANT; BURKHOLDERIA CEPACIA; COMPUTER MODEL; GENE DELETION; INTERSPECIFIC COMPETITION; MICROBIAL POPULATION DYNAMICS; NONHUMAN; PSEUDOMONAS AERUGINOSA; QUORUM SENSING; SPECIES COEXISTENCE; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; GENETICS; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; MUTATION; ORGANISMAL INTERACTION; PHYSIOLOGY; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); PSEUDOMONAS AERUGINOSA;

BURKHOLDERIA CEPACIA; GENE DELETION; MICROBIAL INTERACTIONS; MODELS, GENETIC; MUTATION; PSEUDOMONAS AERUGINOSA; QUORUM SENSING; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION;

EID: 77953327843     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0009998     Document Type: Article

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