Bacterial cooperation in the wild and in the clinic: Are pathogen social behaviours relevant outside the laboratory?

BioEssays

Volumn 35, Issue 2, 2013, Pages 108-112

  Harrison, Freya ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NOTTINGHAM   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Cooperation; Infectious disease; Pathogens; Social evolution; Virulence

Indexed keywords

ALLELE; ARTICLE; BACILLUS THURINGIENSIS; BACTERIAL COOPERATION; BACTERIAL VIRULENCE; COOPERATION; LABORATORY; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; NONHUMAN; POPULATION STRUCTURE; PSEUDOMONAS AERUGINOSA; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR;

ANIMALS; BACTERIA; BACTERIAL SECRETION SYSTEMS; BIOLOGICAL EVOLUTION; HOST-PATHOGEN INTERACTIONS; HUMANS; LABORATORIES; MICROBIAL CONSORTIA; MICROBIAL INTERACTIONS; SELECTION, GENETIC; VIRULENCE; VIRULENCE FACTORS;

ANIMALIA; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS);

EID: 84872388600     PISSN: 02659247     EISSN: 15211878     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/bies.201200154     Document Type: Article

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