Protist predation can favour cooperation within bacterial species

Here, we studied how protist predation affects cooperation in the opportunistic pathogen bacterium Pseudomonas aeruginosa, which uses quorum sensing (QS) cell-to-cell signalling to regulate the production of public goods. By competing wild-type bacteria with QS mutants (cheats), we show that a funct...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Autores principales: Friman, Ville-Petri, Diggle, Stephen P., Buckling, Angus
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: The Royal Society 2013
Materias:
Evolutionary Biology
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3971697/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/23945212
http://dx.doi.org/10.1098/rsbl.2013.0548

Internet

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3971697/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/23945212
http://dx.doi.org/10.1098/rsbl.2013.0548

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