Evolutionary limits to cooperation in microbial communities

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

Volumn 111, Issue 50, 2014, Pages 17941-17946

  Oliveira, Nuno M ^a   Niehus, Rene ^a   Foster, Kevin R ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Black queen evolution; Cooperation exploitation; Ecoevolutionary model; Genetic mixing; Microbial communities

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; COOPERATION; DEMOGRAPHY; EVOLUTION; GENOTYPE; GROUP DYNAMICS; HORIZONTAL GENE TRANSFER; LOSS OF FUNCTION MUTATION; MICROBIAL COMMUNITY; NATURAL SELECTION; NONHUMAN; ORGANISM COMMUNITY; ORGANISMAL INTERACTION; PREDICTION; PRODUCTIVITY; SYMBIOSIS; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; ECOSYSTEM; GENETIC SELECTION; PHYSIOLOGY; SPECIES DIFFERENCE;

BIOLOGICAL EVOLUTION; ECOSYSTEM; MICROBIAL INTERACTIONS; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; SELECTION, GENETIC; SPECIES SPECIFICITY;

EID: 84918534542     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: 10916490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1412673111     Document Type: Article

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