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Social evolution of toxic metal bioremediation in Pseudomonas aeruginosa

Bacteria are often iron-limited, and hence produce extracellular iron-scavenging siderophores. A crucial feature of siderophore production is that it can be an altruistic behaviour (individually costly but benefitting neighbouring cells), thus siderophore producers can be invaded by non-producing so...

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Main Authors: O'Brien, Siobhán, Hodgson, David J., Buckling, Angus
Format: Artigo
Language:Inglês
Published: The Royal Society 2014
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Online Access:https://ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4071558/
https://ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/24898376
https://ncbi.nlm.nih.govhttp://dx.doi.org/10.1098/rspb.2014.0858
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