Metabolic competition as a driver of bacterial population structure

Understanding the processes whereby diversity arises and is maintained in pathogen populations is pivotal for designing disease control interventions. A particular problem is the maintenance of strain structure in bacterial pathogen populations despite frequent genetic exchange. Although several th...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Watkins, E, Maiden, M, Gupta, S
Format: Journal article
Published: Future Medicine 2016