Natural variation in developmental life-history traits of the bacterium Myxococcus xanthus

FEMS Microbiology Ecology

Volumn 73, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 226-233

  Kraemer, Susanne A ^a   Toups, Melissa A ^a   Velicer, Gregory J ^a  

^a INDIANA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

fruiting bodies; intra specific variation; multicellular development; social evolution; soil bacteria

Indexed keywords

BACTERIUM; DEVELOPMENTAL BIOLOGY; FITNESS; GENETIC DRIFT; GENETICALLY MODIFIED ORGANISM; INTRASPECIFIC VARIATION; LIFE HISTORY TRAIT; MOTILITY; NATURAL SELECTION; NUMERICAL MODEL; PHENOTYPE; SOIL MICROORGANISM; SPECIES DIVERSITY; SYMPATRY;

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL SPORE; GENETICS; HEAT; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; MYXOCOCCUS XANTHUS; ORGANISMAL INTERACTION; PHENOTYPE; PHYLOGENY; PHYSIOLOGY;

EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; HOT TEMPERATURE; MICROBIAL INTERACTIONS; MYXOCOCCUS XANTHUS; PHENOTYPE; PHYLOGENY; SPORES, BACTERIAL;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); MYXOCOCCUS XANTHUS;

EID: 77954389919     PISSN: 01686496     EISSN: 15746941     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1574-6941.2010.00888.x     Document Type: Article

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