Microbes don't play solitaire: How cooperation trumps isolation in the microbial world

Environmental Microbiology Reports

Volumn 7, Issue 1, 2015, Pages 26-28

  Hallam, Steven J ^a,b   Mccutcheon, John P ^b,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

^b CANADIAN INSTITUTE FOR ADVANCED RESEARCH   (Canada)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MONTANA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL GENOME; BACTERIAL PHENOMENA AND FUNCTIONS; BACTERIUM; EVOLUTION; GENETICS; GENOMICS; SYMBIOSIS;

BACTERIA; BACTERIAL PHYSIOLOGICAL PHENOMENA; BIOLOGICAL EVOLUTION; GENOME, BACTERIAL; GENOMICS; SYMBIOSIS;

EID: 84923329362     PISSN: None     EISSN: 17582229     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/1758-2229.12248     Document Type: Article

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