Social Evolution Selects for Redundancy in Bacterial Quorum Sensing

PLoS Biology

Volumn 14, Issue 2, 2016, Pages

  Even Tov, Eran ^a   Omer Bendori, Shira ^a   Valastyan, Julie ^b   Ke, Xiaobo ^b   Pollak, Shaul ^a   Bareia, Tasneem ^a   Ben Zion, Ishay ^a   Bassler, Bonnie L ^b,c   Eldar, Avigdor ^a  

^a TEL AVIV UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

^b PRINCETON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c HOWARD HUGHES MEDICAL INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACILLUS SUBTILIS; HUMAN; MODEL; QUORUM SENSING; SOCIAL EVOLUTION; VIBRIO HARVEYI; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; EVOLUTION; GENETIC SELECTION; PHYSIOLOGY; VIBRIO;

BACILLUS SUBTILIS; BIOLOGICAL EVOLUTION; MODELS, GENETIC; QUORUM SENSING; SELECTION, GENETIC; VIBRIO;

EID: 84959527125     PISSN: 15449173     EISSN: 15457885     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pbio.1002386     Document Type: Article

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