Cooperation among Microorganisms
Open Access
- 12 September 2006
- journal article
- essay
- Published by Public Library of Science (PLoS) in PLoS Biology
- Vol. 4 (9) , e299
- https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pbio.0040299
Abstract
Understanding cooperation among microorganisms presents conceptual and mathematical challenges at the interface of evolutionary biology and the theory of emergent properties of independent agents, two of the most exciting areas in modern mathematical biology.Keywords
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