Increased survival during famine improves fitness of bacteria in a pulsed-resource environment

Evolutionary Ecology Research

Volumn 13, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 1-18

  Pekkonen, Minna ^a   Korhonen, Jenni ^a   Laakso, Jouni T ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HELSINKI   (Finland)

Author keywords

Competition; Novosphingobium capsulatum; Population dynamics; Serratia marcescens; Trade offs

Indexed keywords

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); NOVOSPHINGOBIUM CAPSULATUM; SERRATIA MARCESCENS;

EID: 79955678375     PISSN: 15220613     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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