Success of a suicidal defense strategy against infection in a structured habitat

Scientific Reports

Volumn 2, Issue , 2012, Pages

  Fukuyo, Masaki ^a,b   Sasaki, Akira ^c,d   Kobayashi, Ichizo ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

^b JAPAN SOCIETY FOR THE PROMOTION OF SCIENCE   (Japan)

^c GRADUATE UNIVERSITY FOR ADVANCED STUDIES   (Japan)

^d INTERNATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR APPLIED SYSTEMS ANALYSIS   (Austria)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; ECOSYSTEM; ESCHERICHIA COLI; HOST PATHOGEN INTERACTION; INFECTION CONTROL; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; MOLECULAR GENETICS; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PATHOGENICITY; PHYSIOLOGY; THEORETICAL MODEL; VIRULENCE;

BASE SEQUENCE; ECOSYSTEM; ESCHERICHIA COLI; HOST-PATHOGEN INTERACTIONS; INFECTION CONTROL; MODELS, THEORETICAL; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; VIRULENCE;

EID: 84859748733     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20452322     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/srep00238     Document Type: Article

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