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ArticleFrontiers in microbiology2018

Competitive Interactions Between Incompatible Mutants of the Social Bacterium

Ya Gong, Zheng Zhang, Xiu-Wen Zhou, Mian N Anwar, Xiao-Zhuang Hu, Ze-Shuo Li, Xiao-Jing Chen, Yue-Zhong Li

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Article in Frontiers in microbiology, 2018. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 8 papers.

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8 authors.

Ya GongState Key Laboratory of Microbial Technology, School of Life Science, Shandong University, Jinan, China.
Zheng ZhangState Key Laboratory of Microbial Technology, School of Life Science, Shandong University, Jinan, China.
Xiu-Wen ZhouState Key Laboratory of Microbial Technology, School of Life Science, Shandong University, Jinan, China.
Mian N AnwarState Key Laboratory of Microbial Technology, School of Life Science, Shandong University, Jinan, China.
Xiao-Zhuang HuState Key Laboratory of Microbial Technology, School of Life Science, Shandong University, Jinan, China.
Ze-Shuo LiState Key Laboratory of Microbial Technology, School of Life Science, Shandong University, Jinan, China.
Xiao-Jing ChenState Key Laboratory of Microbial Technology, School of Life Science, Shandong University, Jinan, China.
Yue-Zhong LiState Key Laboratory of Microbial Technology, School of Life Science, Shandong University, Jinan, China.

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Due to the high similarity in their requirements for space and food, close bacterial relatives may be each other's strongest competitors. Close bacterial relatives often form visible boundaries to separate their swarming colonies, a phenomenon termed colony-merger incompatibility. While bacterial species are known to have many incompatible strains, it is largely unclear which traits lead to multiple incompatibilities and the interactions between multiple incompatible siblings. To investigate the competitive interactions of closely related incompatible strains, we mutated

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colony-merger incompatibilitycompetitive interactionmultiple genetic lociMyxococcus xanthusself-identificationtransposon-mutation

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