Siderophore-mediated cooperation and virulence in Pseudomonas aeruginosa.
Why should organisms cooperate with each other? Helping close relatives that are likely to share the same genes (kin selection) is one important explanation that is likely to apply across taxa. The production of metabolically costly extracellular iron-scavenging molecules (siderophores) by microorga...
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| Formato: | Journal article |
| Idioma: | English |
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2007
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