Communication in bacteria

Sociobiology of Communication: An Interdisciplinary Perspective

Volumn , Issue , 2008, Pages

  Diggle, Stephen P ^a   West, Stuart A ^b   Gardner, Andy ^b   Griffin, Ashleigh S ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NOTTINGHAM   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Bacterial cells; Cheating; Interkingdom; Intraspecies; Kin selection; Quorum sensing; Social evolution

Indexed keywords

EID: 84920751403     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199216840.003.0002     Document Type: Chapter

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