title: Evolution: spatial scaling of microbial interactions.
abstract: Intraspecific incompatibility in the soil bacterium Myxococcus xanthus demonstrates that the social life of microbes is antagonistic on local and global scales. Antagonistic interactions and non-self recognition are likely to promote microbial diversity in local populations.
authors.affiliation: Department of Microbiology, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, 61801, USA. rwhitaker@life.uiuc.edu
authors.forename: Rachel J
authors.initials: RJ
authors.lastname: Whitaker
mesh_terms: D005075:Biological Evolution; D056265:Microbial Interactions; D016941:Myxococcus xanthus / Q000254:growth & development / Q000502:physiology*; D012988:Soil Microbiology