Kin discrimination between sympatric Bacillus subtilis isolates

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

Volumn 112, Issue 45, 2015, Pages 14042-14047

  Stefanic, Polonca ^a   Kraigher, Barbara ^a   Lyons, Nicholas Anthony ^b   Kolter, Roberto ^b   Mandic Mulec, Ines ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LJUBLJANA   (Slovenia)

^b HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

Author keywords

Antagonism; Biofilm; Kin recognition; Social evolution; Swarming

Indexed keywords

BACILLUS SUBTILIS; BACTERIAL COLONIZATION; BACTERIAL GENETICS; BACTERIUM ISOLATE; CONFERENCE PAPER; ECOTYPE; HOUSEKEEPING GENE; KIN DISCRIMINATION; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PHENOTYPE; PHYLOGENETIC TREE; PLANT ROOT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROMOTER REGION; SOIL MICROFLORA; SYMPATRY; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; BIOFILM; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; DNA SEQUENCE; GENETICS; MICROBIOLOGY; MOLECULAR GENETICS; ORGANISMAL INTERACTION; PHYLOGENY; PHYSIOLOGY; SPECIES DIFFERENCE;

PRIMER DNA;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; BACILLUS SUBTILIS; BASE SEQUENCE; BIOFILMS; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; DNA PRIMERS; MICROBIAL INTERACTIONS; MODELS, GENETIC; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PHYLOGENY; PLANT ROOTS; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; SPECIES SPECIFICITY;

EID: 84946768213     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: 10916490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1512671112     Document Type: Article

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