Bacterial cell-to-cell signaling promotes the evolution of resistance to parasitic bacteriophages

Ecology and Evolution

Volumn 7, Issue 6, 2017, Pages 1936-1941

  Moreau, Pierre ^a   Diggle, Stephen P ^b   Friman, Ville Petri ^a,c  

^a IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NOTTINGHAM   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF YORK   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

bacteriophage; coevolution; evolution; parasitism; quorum sensing; resistance

Indexed keywords

EID: 85013498889     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20457758     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/ece3.2818     Document Type: Article

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