Endemic social diversity within natural kin groups of a cooperative bacterium

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

Volumn 108, Issue SUPPL. 2, 2011, Pages 10823-10830

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

^a INDIANA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Bacterial population structure; Micro scale variation

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL REPRODUCTION; BACTERIUM CULTURE; CELL INTERACTION; CONFERENCE PAPER; ENDEMIC SPECIES; FRUITING BODY; GENE LOCUS; GENE STRUCTURE; GENETIC VARIABILITY; KIN SELECTION; MICROBIAL COMMUNITY; MYXOCOCCUS XANTHUS; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PHENOTYPE; PHYLOGENY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; UNINDEXED SEQUENCE;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); MYXOCOCCUS; MYXOCOCCUS XANTHUS;

EID: 79960640512     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: 10916490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1100307108     Document Type: Article

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