Metabolic competition as a driver of bacterial population structure

Future Microbiology

Volumn 11, Issue 10, 2016, Pages 1339-1357

  Watkins, Eleanor R ^a   Maiden, Martin C J ^a   Gupta, Sunetra ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

bacterial pathogens; competition; mathematical models; metabolism; vaccination

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL GENE; BACTERIAL METABOLISM; BACTERIAL STRUCTURES; BACTERIUM; CONCEPTUAL FRAMEWORK; DISEASE CONTROL; ECOLOGY; GENETIC VARIABILITY; HOST PATHOGEN INTERACTION; NONHUMAN; POPULATION STRUCTURE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; ALLELE; BIODIVERSITY; CLASSIFICATION; DRUG EFFECTS; EVOLUTION; GENETIC VARIATION; GENETICS; HOST PARASITE INTERACTION; HUMAN; METABOLISM; MULTILOCUS SEQUENCE TYPING; PATHOGENICITY; THEORETICAL MODEL; VACCINATION;

BACTERIAL ANTIGEN; VACCINE;

ALLELES; ANTIGENS, BACTERIAL; BACTERIA; BIODIVERSITY; BIOLOGICAL EVOLUTION; ECOLOGY; GENES, BACTERIAL; GENETIC VARIATION; HOST-PARASITE INTERACTIONS; HUMANS; METABOLIC NETWORKS AND PATHWAYS; MODELS, THEORETICAL; MULTILOCUS SEQUENCE TYPING; VACCINATION;

EID: 85003633053     PISSN: 17460913     EISSN: 17460921     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2217/fmb-2016-0079     Document Type: Review

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