Slow and steady wins the race: A bacterial exploitative competition strategy in fluctuating environments

ACS Synthetic Biology

Volumn 4, Issue 3, 2015, Pages 240-248

  Mao, Junwen ^a,b   Blanchard, Andrew E ^a   Lu, Ting ^a,c  

^a University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign   (United States)

^b HUZHOU UNIVERSITY   (China)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT URBANA CHAMPAIGN   (United States)

Author keywords

bacterial exploitative competition; fluctuating environments; limited resources; risk and return; strategic games

Indexed keywords

ADOPTION; ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; BACTERIA; BACTERIAL GROWTH; BACTERIAL STRAIN; BACTERIAL SURVIVAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENVIRONMENT; GENETIC ENGINEERING; GROWTH RATE; INTRASPECIFIC COMPETITION; MICROBIAL COMMUNITY; MICROBIAL CONSORTIUM; MICROBIAL POPULATION DYNAMICS; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPECIES COMPARISON; STEADY STATE; SYNTHETIC BIOLOGY; BACTERIAL PHENOMENA AND FUNCTIONS; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; ORGANISMAL INTERACTION; PHYSIOLOGY;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS);

BACTERIAL PHYSIOLOGICAL PHENOMENA; MICROBIAL CONSORTIA; MICROBIAL INTERACTIONS; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL;

EID: 84925665336     PISSN: None     EISSN: 21615063     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/sb4002008     Document Type: Article

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