Cooperation, competition, and coalitions in enzyme-producing microbes: Social evolution and nutrient depolymerization rates

Frontiers in Microbiology

Volumn 3, Issue SEP, 2012, Pages

  Folse III, Henry J ^a   Allison, Steven D ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Cooperation; Decomposition; Density dependence; Extracellular enzymes; Facilitation; Microbe; Nutrient depolymerization; Spatial model

Indexed keywords

EID: 84875820532     PISSN: None     EISSN: 1664302X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3389/fmicb.2012.00338     Document Type: Article

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