Tragedy of the commons among antibiotic resistance plasmids

Evolution

Volumn 66, Issue 4, 2012, Pages 1269-1274

  smith, Jeff ^a  

^a EMORY UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Cheating; Conflict; Cooperation; Horizontal gene transfer; Selfish genetic elements; Symbiosis; Virulence

Indexed keywords

ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANCE; BACTERIUM; COOPERATIVE BEHAVIOR; EVOLUTIONARY BIOLOGY; FITNESS; GENE TRANSFER; GENOTYPE; NATURAL SELECTION; PLASMID; PUBLIC HEALTH; SOCIOBIOLOGY; SYMBIOSIS; VIRULENCE;

ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANCE; ARTICLE; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; ESCHERICHIA COLI; EVOLUTION; GENETICS; HORIZONTAL GENE TRANSFER; ORGANISMAL INTERACTION; PATHOGENICITY; PLASMID; REPRODUCTIVE FITNESS; VIRULENCE;

BIOLOGICAL EVOLUTION; DRUG RESISTANCE, MICROBIAL; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENE TRANSFER, HORIZONTAL; GENETIC FITNESS; MICROBIAL INTERACTIONS; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; PLASMIDS; VIRULENCE;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS);

EID: 84859441711     PISSN: 00143820     EISSN: 15585646     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1558-5646.2011.01531.x     Document Type: Article

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