Resource and competitive dynamics shape the benefits of public goods cooperation in a plant pathogen

Evolution

Volumn 66, Issue 6, 2012, Pages 1953-1965

  Platt, Thomas G ^a   Fuqua, Clay ^a   Bever, James D ^a  

^a INDIANA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Agrobacterium tumefaciens; Greenbeard; Kin competition; Multilevel selection; Population size

Indexed keywords

ARGININE; DRUG DERIVATIVE; OCTOPINE;

BACTERIUM; COMPETITIVE ABILITY; CONSUMER-RESOURCE INTERACTION; COOPERATIVE BEHAVIOR; FITNESS; HOST PLANT; KIN SELECTION; PATHOGEN; PATHOGENICITY; POPULATION SIZE; SAPROTROPHY;

ARTICLE; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; METABOLISM; MICROBIOLOGY; PATHOGENICITY; PHYSIOLOGY; PLANT; PLASMID; RHIZOBIUM RADIOBACTER; VIRULENCE;

AGROBACTERIUM TUMEFACIENS; ARGININE; MODELS, GENETIC; PLANTS; PLASMIDS; VIRULENCE;

AGROBACTERIUM TUMEFACIENS; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS);

EID: 84861679837     PISSN: 00143820     EISSN: 15585646     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1558-5646.2011.01571.x     Document Type: Article

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