Genetic information transfer promotes cooperation in bacteria

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

Volumn 111, Issue 30, 2014, Pages 11103-11108

  Dimitriu, Tatiana ^a   Lotton, Chantal ^a   Beńard Capelle, Julien ^a   Misevic, Dusan ^a   Brown, Sam P ^b   Lindner, Ariel B ^a   Taddei, Franco̧is ^a  

^a INSERM   (France)

^b UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Bacterial cooperation; Gene mobility; Plasmid transfer; Social evolution

Indexed keywords

CHLORAMPHENICOL;

ALLELE; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL VIRULENCE; CELL GROWTH; CONJUGATION; COOPERATION; EPIDEMIC; ESCHERICHIA COLI; FLOW CYTOMETRY; GENE FREQUENCY; GENETIC CODE; GENETIC SELECTION; HORIZONTAL GENE TRANSFER; NONHUMAN; POPULATION DYNAMICS; POPULATION GENETIC STRUCTURE; POPULATION STRUCTURE; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

BACTERIAL COOPERATION; GENE MOBILITY; PLASMID TRANSFER; SOCIAL EVOLUTION;

BACTERIA; GENE TRANSFER, HORIZONTAL; GENES, BACTERIAL; PLASMIDS;

EID: 84904964506     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: 10916490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1406840111     Document Type: Article

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