Rethinking evolutionary individuality

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

Volumn 112, Issue 33, 2015, Pages 10126-10132

  Ereshefsky, Marc ^a   Pedroso, Makmiller ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALGARY   (Canada)

^b TOWSON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Biofilms; Evolutionary individuality; Microbial consortia; Reproduction; Symbiosis

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL CELL; BIOFILM; CELL MOTILITY; EUKARYOTE; EVOLUTIONARY ADAPTATION; EVOLUTIONARY INDIVIDUALITY; GERM LINE; HORIZONTAL GENE TRANSFER; MICROBIAL CONSORTIUM; MICROBIAL GENOME; MICROBIAL POPULATION DYNAMICS; MUTATION; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUORUM SENSING; REPRODUCTION; SYMBIOSIS; ANIMAL; BACTERIUM; EVOLUTION; FUNGUS; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; HUMAN; INTESTINE; MICROBIOLOGY; MICROFLORA; PHYSIOLOGY; SPECIES DIFFERENCE;

EUKARYOTA;

ANIMALS; BACTERIA; BIOFILMS; BIOLOGICAL EVOLUTION; FUNGI; HUMANS; INTESTINES; MICROBIAL CONSORTIA; MICROBIOTA; REPRODUCTION; SPECIES SPECIFICITY;

EID: 84940200951     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: 10916490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1421377112     Document Type: Article

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