Can selfish symbioses effect higher-level selection?

Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)

Volumn 5778 LNAI, Issue PART 2, 2011, Pages 27-36

  Watson, Richard A ^a   Palmius, Niclas ^a   Mills, Rob ^a   Powers, Simon T ^a   Penn, Alexandra ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHAMPTON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GENETIC EVOLUTION; SYMBIOTIC RELATIONSHIP;

BIOLOGY;

EID: 79960012109     PISSN: 03029743     EISSN: 16113349     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-642-21314-4_4     Document Type: Conference Paper

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