Co-evolutionary dynamics between public good producers and cheats in the bacterium Pseudomonas aeruginosa

Journal of Evolutionary Biology

Volumn 28, Issue 12, 2015, Pages 2264-2274

  Kummerli R ^a,b   Santorelli, L A ^c   Granato, E T ^a   Dumas, Z ^b,d   Dobay, A ^a   Griffin, A S ^c   West, S A ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^b SWISS FEDERAL INSTITUTE OF AQUATIC SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Switzerland)

^c UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^d UNIVERSITY OF LAUSANNE   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Antagonism; Cheating resistance; Experimental evolution; Microbial cooperation; Siderophores; Whole genome resequencing

Indexed keywords

ANTAGONISM; BACTERIUM; CHEATING BEHAVIOR; COEVOLUTION; COOPERATIVE BEHAVIOR; GENOME; PUBLIC GOODS; SIDEROPHORE;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); PSEUDOMONAS AERUGINOSA;

ADAPTATION; BACTERIAL GENE; EVOLUTION; GENETICS; MUTATION; PHYSIOLOGY; PSEUDOMONAS AERUGINOSA; SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE POLYMORPHISM;

ADAPTATION, PHYSIOLOGICAL; BIOLOGICAL EVOLUTION; GENES, BACTERIAL; MUTATION; POLYMORPHISM, SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE; PSEUDOMONAS AERUGINOSA;

EID: 84951568937     PISSN: 1010061X     EISSN: 14209101     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/jeb.12751     Document Type: Article

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