Programmed Allee effect in bacteria causes a tradeoff between population spread and survival

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

Volumn 111, Issue 5, 2014, Pages 1969-1974

  Smith, Robert ^a,e   Tan, Cheemeng ^b   Srimani, Jaydeep K ^a   Pai, Anand ^a   Riccione, Katherine A ^a   Song, Hao ^c   You, Lingchong ^a,d  

^a Duke University   (United States)

^b Carnegie Mellon University   (United States)

^c Nanyang Technological University   (Singapore)

^d DUKE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^e NOVA SOUTHEASTERN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Bacterial communication; Cooperation; Invasive species; Quorum sensing; Synthetic biology

Indexed keywords

ALLEE EFFECT; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL COLONIZATION; BACTERIAL SURVIVAL; BACTERIAL TRANSMISSION; BACTERIAL VIRULENCE; COOPERATION; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENETIC ENGINEERING; HABITAT SELECTION; NONHUMAN; ORGANISMAL INTERACTION; POPULATION DENSITY; POPULATION DENSITY DEPENDENCE; POPULATION DISPERSAL; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUORUM SENSING;

BACTERIAL COMMUNICATION; COOPERATION; INVASIVE SPECIES; QUORUM SENSING; SYNTHETIC BIOLOGY;

ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENETIC ENGINEERING; MICROBIAL VIABILITY; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; MOVEMENT;

EID: 84893461665     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: 10916490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1315954111     Document Type: Article

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