Ecological populations of bacteria act as socially cohesive units of antibiotic production and resistance

Science

Volumn 337, Issue 6099, 2012, Pages 1228-1231

  Cordero, Otto X ^a   Wildschutte, Hans ^a   Kirkup, Benjamin ^a   Proehl, Sarah ^a   Ngo, Lynn ^a   Hussain, Fatima ^a   Le Roux, Frederique ^b   Mincer, Tracy ^c   Polz, Martin F ^a  

^a Massachusetts Institute of Technology Cambridge   (United States)

^b IFREMER   (France)

^c WOODS HOLE OCEANOGRAPHIC INSTITUTION   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIBIOTIC AGENT; POLYPEPTIDE ANTIBIOTIC AGENT;

ANTAGONISM; ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANCE; ANTIBIOTICS; BACTERIUM; GENOTYPE; SOCIAL STRUCTURE; WILD POPULATION;

ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANCE; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENETICS; BACTERIUM ISOLATION; CELL ADHESION; DRUG MANUFACTURE; ECOLOGY; ENVIRONMENTAL ASPECTS AND RELATED PHENOMENA; GENE CLUSTER; GENETIC ANALYSIS; GENOTYPE; MICROBIAL POPULATION DYNAMICS; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; VIBRIONACEAE;

ANIMALIA; VIBRIONACEAE;

EID: 84865832282     PISSN: 00368075     EISSN: 10959203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1126/science.1219385     Document Type: Article

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