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Social evolution in micro-organisms and a Trojan horse approach to medical intervention strategies
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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 dynamics of social traits could be exploited to introduce less virulent strains of bacteria, or medically beneficial alleles into infective populations. We discuss how bacterial strains adopting diffe...
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- Publication status:
- Published
- Peer review status:
- Peer reviewed
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Wellcome Trust
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Leverhulme Trust
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Bibliographic Details
- Publisher:
- Royal Society Publisher's website
- Journal:
- Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B Journal website
- Volume:
- 364
- Issue:
- 1533
- Pages:
- 3157-3168
- Publication date:
- 2009-11-01
- DOI:
- EISSN:
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1471-2970
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- Language:
- English
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- Local pid:
- ora:3167
- Deposit date:
- 2009-12-16
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- Copyright holder:
- S P Brown et al
- Copyright date:
- 2009
- Notes:
- Citation: Brown, S. P. et al. (2009). 'Social evolution in micro-organisms and a Trojan horse approach to medical intervention strategies', Phil. Trans. R. Soc. B, 364(1533), 3157-3168. [Available at http://rstb.royalsocietypublishing.org/]. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/2.5/), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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