Population Bottlenecks Promote Cooperation in Bacterial Biofilms

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About the Authors

Michael A. Brockhurst

*To whom correspondence should be addressed. E-mail: michael.brockhurst@liv.ac.uk

Affiliation School of Biological Sciences, University of Liverpool, Liverpool, United Kingdom

The author has declared that no competing interests exist.

Conceived and designed the experiments: MB. Performed the experiments: MB. Analyzed the data: MB. Wrote the paper: MB.

Microbial evolution
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Bacterial biofilms
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Population density
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Automated fluorescent genotyping
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Pseudomonas fluorescens
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Bacterial evolution
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Evolutionary genetics
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Population genetics
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