Social evolution in micro-organisms and a Trojan horse approach to medical intervention strategies.
Medical science is typically pitted against the evolutionary forces acting upon infective populations of bacteria. As an alternative strategy, we could exploit our growing understanding of population dynamics of social traits in bacteria to help treat bacterial disease. In particular, population dyn...
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Format: | Journal article |
Language: | English |
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2009
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