Presence of a loner strain maintains cooperation and diversity in well-mixed bacterial communities

Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences

Volumn 283, Issue 1822, 2016, Pages

  Inglis, R F ^a,b   Biernaskie, J M ^c   Gardner, A ^d   Kummerli R ^e  

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

^b ETH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^c UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^d UNIVERSITY OF ST ANDREWS   (United Kingdom)

^e UNIVERSITY OF ZURICH   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Experimental evolution; Microbial biodiversity; Non transitive competition; Rock paper scissor dynamics; Siderophore; Social evolution

Indexed keywords

BACTERIUM; BIOMECHANICS; EVOLUTIONARY BIOLOGY; EXPERIMENTAL STUDY; MICROBIAL COMMUNITY; NUMERICAL MODEL; SIDEROPHORE; SPECIES DIVERSITY;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); PSEUDOMONAS AERUGINOSA;

OLIGOPEPTIDE; PYOVERDINE;

BIODIVERSITY; BIOSYNTHESIS; EVOLUTION; GAME; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; METABOLISM; POPULATION DYNAMICS; PSEUDOMONAS; PSEUDOMONAS AERUGINOSA; THEORETICAL MODEL;

BIODIVERSITY; BIOLOGICAL EVOLUTION; GAME THEORY; MODELS, THEORETICAL; OLIGOPEPTIDES; POPULATION DYNAMICS; PSEUDOMONAS; PSEUDOMONAS AERUGINOSA;

EID: 84955583092     PISSN: 09628452     EISSN: 14712954     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rspb.2015.2682     Document Type: Article

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