Killing as means of promoting biodiversity

Biochemical Society Transactions

Volumn 40, Issue 6, 2012, Pages 1512-1516

  Abrudan, Monica I ^a   Brown, Sarah ^a   Rozen, Daniel E ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MANCHESTER   (United Kingdom)

^b LEIDEN UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Bacteriocin; Biodiversity; Evolution; Quorum sensing; Signalling

Indexed keywords

BACTERIOCIN;

BACTERIAL CELL; BACTERICIDAL ACTIVITY; BIODIVERSITY; CONFERENCE PAPER; EMPIRICAL RESEARCH; EVOLUTION; IMMUNITY; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUORUM SENSING; SPECIES COEXISTENCE; STREPTOCOCCUS PNEUMONIAE;

ADAPTATION, BIOLOGICAL; ANTIBIOSIS; BACTERIOCINS; BIODIVERSITY; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; GRAM-NEGATIVE BACTERIA; GRAM-POSITIVE BACTERIA; HUMANS; METAGENOME; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS);

EID: 84870178114     PISSN: 03005127     EISSN: 14708752     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1042/BST20120196     Document Type: Conference Paper

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