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American Society for Microbiology meeting

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- More than 2 years ago

American Society for Microbiology, New Orleans, May 21–24, 2011

Foiling cheaters
It can take an entire community to keep cheaters from prospering. New experiments with bacteria show that populations containing different types of bacteria behave very differently than groups composed of only one species.