The Weak Shall Inherit: Bacteriocin-Mediated Interactions in Bacterial Populations

PLoS ONE

Volumn 8, Issue 5, 2013, Pages

  Majeed, Hadeel ^a   Lampert, Adam ^b   Ghazaryan, Lusine ^a   Gillor, Osnat ^a  

^a BEN GURION UNIVERSITY OF THE NEGEV   (Israel)

^b WEIZMANN INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE   (Israel)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTERIOCIN; COLICIN 1B; COLICIN A; COLICIN D; COLICIN E2; COLICIN E6; COLICIN E7; COLICIN K; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL STRAIN; CONTROLLED STUDY; INTRASPECIFIC COMPETITION; MATHEMATICAL MODEL; MICROBIAL COMMUNITY; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; ORGANISMAL INTERACTION; REPORTER GENE; TERRITORIALITY;

BACTERIA; BACTERIOCINS; BIODIVERSITY; COLICINS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; GENES, REPORTER;

EID: 84877955615     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0063837     Document Type: Article

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