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Ecological Populations of Bacteria Act as Socially Cohesive Units of Antibiotic Production and Resis...

Ecological Populations of Bacteria Act as Socially Cohesive Units of Antibiotic Production and Resis...

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Ecological Populations of Bacteria Act as Socially Cohesive Units of Antibiotic Production and Resistance

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Ecological Populations of Bacteria Act as Socially Cohesive Units of Antibiotic Production and Resistance

Publisher

Washington, DC: American Association for the Advancement of Science

Journal title

Science (American Association for the Advancement of Science), 2012-09, Vol.337 (6099), p.1228-1231

Language

English

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Washington, DC: American Association for the Advancement of Science

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Scope and Contents

Contents

In animals and plants, social structure can reduce conflict within populations and bias aggression toward competing populations; however, for bacteria in the wild it remains unknown whether such population-level organization exists. Here, we show that environmental bacteria are organized into socially cohesive units in which antagonism occurs betwe...

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Full title

Ecological Populations of Bacteria Act as Socially Cohesive Units of Antibiotic Production and Resistance

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TN_cdi_hal_primary_oai_HAL_hal_04499247v1

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https://devfeature-collection.sl.nsw.gov.au/record/TN_cdi_hal_primary_oai_HAL_hal_04499247v1

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ISSN

0036-8075

E-ISSN

1095-9203

DOI

10.1126/science.1219385