Social behaviour in microorganisms

Social Behaviour: Genes, Ecology and Evolution

Volumn , Issue , 2010, Pages 331-356

  Foster, Kevin R ^a  

^a HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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DOI: 10.1017/CBO9780511781360.027     Document Type: Chapter

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