Quorum sensing protects bacterial co-operation from exploitation by cheats

ISME Journal

Volumn 10, Issue 7, 2016, Pages 1706-1716

  Allen, Richard C ^a   McNally, Luke ^a   Popat, Roman ^a   Brown, Sam P ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTERIUM; BEHAVIORAL RESPONSE; CHEATING BEHAVIOR; COGNITION; COOPERATIVE BEHAVIOR; ENZYME; EXPERIMENTAL STUDY; NUMERICAL METHOD; PATHOGEN; SECRETION; SENSORY SYSTEM;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); PSEUDOMONAS AERUGINOSA; VERTEBRATA;

GENOTYPE; PHENOTYPE; PHYSIOLOGY; POPULATION DENSITY; PSEUDOMONAS AERUGINOSA; QUORUM SENSING;

GENOTYPE; PHENOTYPE; POPULATION DENSITY; PSEUDOMONAS AERUGINOSA; QUORUM SENSING;

EID: 84953432627     PISSN: 17517362     EISSN: 17517370     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/ismej.2015.232     Document Type: Article

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