The genotypic view of social interactions in microbial communities

Annual Review of Genetics

Volumn 47, Issue , 2013, Pages 247-273

  Mitri, Sara ^a   Richard Foster, Kevin ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Biofilm; Competition; Cooperation; Evolution; Microbial ecology

Indexed keywords

COMMUNITY ECOLOGY; COMPETITION; COOPERATION; EVOLUTIONARY ADAPTATION; GENE LOCUS; GENOTYPE; GENOTYPIC VIEW; HORIZONTAL GENE TRANSFER; HYPOTHESIS; MICROBIAL COMMUNITY; NONHUMAN; ORGANISMAL INTERACTION; PHYLOGENY; PREDATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; SOCIAL EVOLUTION; SOCIAL INTERACTION; SPECIES DIFFERENCE;

BACTERIAL PROTEINS; BACTERIAL SECRETION SYSTEMS; BACTERIAL TOXINS; ECOLOGY; GENETIC FITNESS; GENOME, BACTERIAL; GENOTYPE; MICROBIAL CONSORTIA; MICROBIAL INTERACTIONS; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; PHENOTYPE; SELECTION, GENETIC; SPECIES SPECIFICITY;

EID: 84888586768     PISSN: 00664197     EISSN: 15452948     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1146/annurev-genet-111212-133307     Document Type: Review

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