Evolutionary history predicts the stability of cooperation in microbial communities

Nature Communications

Volumn 4, Issue , 2013, Pages

  Jousset, Alexandre ^a,b   Eisenhauer, Nico ^c   Materne, Eva ^a   Scheu, Stefan ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GÖTTINGEN   (Germany)

^b UTRECHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^c FRIEDRICH SCHILLER UNIVERSITY JENA   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

TRYPTOPHAN 2,3 DIOXYGENASE;

COOPERATIVE BEHAVIOR; LIFE HISTORY TRAIT; MICROBIAL COMMUNITY; PHENOTYPE; PHYLOGENY; RELATEDNESS; VULNERABILITY;

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GROWTH; ENZYME ACTIVITY; GENOTYPE; MICROBIAL COMMUNITY; NONHUMAN; ORGANISM COMMUNITY; PHENOTYPE; PROTEIN DEGRADATION; PSEUDOMONAS FLUORESCENS; QUORUM SENSING;

ANTIBIOSIS; BIOLOGICAL EVOLUTION; MICROBIAL CONSORTIA; MODELS, STATISTICAL; PHYLOGENY; QUORUM SENSING; SYMBIOSIS;

EID: 84885621289     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20411723     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/ncomms3573     Document Type: Article

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