Ecological suicide in microbes

Nature Ecology and Evolution

Volumn 2, Issue 5, 2018, Pages 867-872

  Ratzke, Christoph ^a   Denk, Jonas ^b   Gore, Jeff ^a  

^a MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ENVIRONMENT; ORGANISMAL INTERACTION; PAENIBACILLUS; PH; PHYSIOLOGY; POPULATION DYNAMICS;

ENVIRONMENT; HYDROGEN-ION CONCENTRATION; MICROBIAL INTERACTIONS; PAENIBACILLUS; POPULATION DYNAMICS;

EID: 85045463405     PISSN: None     EISSN: 2397334X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/s41559-018-0535-1     Document Type: Article

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