Social conflict drives the evolutionary divergence of quorum sensing

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

Volumn 108, Issue 33, 2011, Pages 13635-13640

  Eldar, Avigdor ^a  

^a TEL AVIV UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

Author keywords

Bacterial communication; Diversifying selection; Microbiology; Sociobiology

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL STRAIN; COEVOLUTION; CONFLICT; GENE MUTATION; GENETIC VARIABILITY; MATHEMATICAL ANALYSIS; MICROBIAL COMMUNITY; MICROBIAL POPULATION DYNAMICS; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUORUM SENSING; SOCIOBIOLOGY;

BACTERIA; BACTERIAL PHYSIOLOGICAL PHENOMENA; BIOLOGICAL EVOLUTION; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; MUTATION; QUORUM SENSING; SPECIES SPECIFICITY;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS);

EID: 80051958792     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: 10916490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1102923108     Document Type: Article

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