Quorum-sensing and cheating in bacterial biofilms

Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences

Volumn 279, Issue 1748, 2012, Pages 4765-4771

  Popat, Roman ^a   Crusz, Shanika A ^a   Messina, Marco ^a   Williams, Paul ^a   West, Stuart A ^b   Diggle, Stephen P ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NOTTINGHAM   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Biofilms; Cheating; Cooperation; Public goods; Quorum sensing; Spatial structure

Indexed keywords

EID: 84868120936     PISSN: 09628452     EISSN: 14712954     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rspb.2012.1976     Document Type: Article

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