Social complementation and growth advantages promote socially defective bacterial isolates

Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences

Volumn 281, Issue 1781, 2014, Pages

  Kraemer, Susanne A ^a   Velicer, Gregory J ^b,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OTTAWA   (Canada)

^b ETH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^c INDIANA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Kin group; Myxococcus xanthus; Natural isolates; Pleiotropy; Social complementation; Social interactions

Indexed keywords

BACTERIUM; COMPETITION (ECOLOGY); FREQUENCY ANALYSIS; FRUITING; GENOTYPE; GROWTH; PHENOTYPE; PLEIOTROPY; POPULATION STRUCTURE;

ALGAL BLOOM; ANIMAL; AQUATIC SPECIES; ARTICLE; CHILE; FOSSIL; FOSSIL RECORD; HARMFUL ALGAL BLOOMS; MAMMAL; PACIFIC OCEAN; SCANNING ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; SPECIES DIFFERENCE; SPECTROSCOPY; STRANDINGS; TAPHONOMY;

FOSSIL RECORD; HARMFUL ALGAL BLOOMS; STRANDINGS; TAPHONOMY;

ANIMALS; AQUATIC ORGANISMS; CHILE; FOSSILS; HARMFUL ALGAL BLOOM; MAMMALS; MICROSCOPY, ELECTRON, SCANNING; PACIFIC OCEAN; SPECIES SPECIFICITY; SPECTRUM ANALYSIS;

EID: 84896830847     PISSN: 09628452     EISSN: 14712954     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rspb.2014.0036     Document Type: Article

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