Social amoeba farmers carry defensive symbionts to protect and privatize their crops

Nature Communications

Volumn 4, Issue , 2013, Pages

  Brock, Debra A ^a   Read, Silven ^b   Bozhchenko, Alona ^b   Queller, David C ^a   Strassmann, Joan E ^a  

^a WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b RICE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DNA 16S;

ADAPTATION; BACTERIUM; GROWTH RATE; HOST-SYMBIONT INTERACTION; INHIBITION; PRIVATIZATION; PROTOZOAN; SPORE;

AGRICULTURAL WORKER; AMOEBA (LIFE CYCLE STAGE); ARTICLE; BACTERIAL SPORE; BURKHOLDERIA XENOVORANS; CLONE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CROP PROTECTION; DICTYOSTELIUM DISCOIDEUM; KLEBSIELLA PNEUMONIAE; MICROBIAL GROWTH; MOLECULE; NONHUMAN; SECRETION (PROCESS); STENOTROPHOMONAS MALTOPHILIA; SUPERNATANT; SYMBIONT; TIME;

BIOLOGICAL EVOLUTION; BURKHOLDERIA; DICTYOSTELIUM; KLEBSIELLA PNEUMONIAE; LINEAR MODELS; SPORES, PROTOZOAN; SYMBIOSIS; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 84883339070     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20411723     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/ncomms3385     Document Type: Article

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