Cooperation and the evolutionary ecology of bacterial virulence: The Bacillus cereus group as a novel study system

BioEssays

Volumn 35, Issue 8, 2013, Pages 706-716

  Raymond, Ben ^a   Bonsall, Michael B ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Cooperation; Host range; Microbial ecology; Social evolution; Toxin; Virulence

Indexed keywords

ENTEROTOXIN; OLIGOPEPTIDE;

BACILLUS CEREUS; BACTERIAL VIRULENCE; ECOLOGY; EVOLUTION; HOST CELL; HOST RANGE; NONHUMAN; PATHOGENICITY; PHAGOCYTOSIS; QUORUM SENSING; REVIEW; SOCIAL EVOLUTION; SOCIOBIOLOGY; SPECIES DIVERSITY; WILD TYPE;

COOPERATION; HOST RANGE; MICROBIAL ECOLOGY; SOCIAL EVOLUTION; TOXIN; VIRULENCE;

ANIMALS; BACILLUS ANTHRACIS; BACILLUS CEREUS; BACILLUS THURINGIENSIS; BACTERIA; BIOLOGICAL EVOLUTION; DEPSIPEPTIDES; ECOSYSTEM; HOST-PATHOGEN INTERACTIONS; HUMANS; INSECT PROTEINS; PHYLOGENY; QUORUM SENSING; RECEPTORS, CELL SURFACE; VIRULENCE; VIRULENCE FACTORS;

BACILLUS CEREUS; BACILLUS CEREUS GROUP; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); FIRMICUTES;

EID: 84880330491     PISSN: 02659247     EISSN: 15211878     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/bies.201300028     Document Type: Review

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