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Ecological populations of bacteria act as socially cohesive units of antibiotic production and resistance.
Science (New York, N.Y.) - 7 Sept 2012
Cordero Otto X, Wildschutte Hans, Kirkup Benjamin, Proehl Sarah, Ngo Lynn, Hussain Fatima, Le Roux Frederique, Mincer Tracy, Polz Martin F
Abstract excerpt
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 between rather than within ecologically defined populations. By...
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