Social Evolution Selects for Redundancy in Bacterial Quorum Sensing.
Quorum sensing is a process of chemical communication that bacteria use to monitor cell density and coordinate cooperative behaviors. Quorum sensing relies on extracellular signal molecules and cognate receptor pairs. While a single quorum-sensing system is sufficient to probe cell density, bacteria...
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Format: | Article |
Language: | English |
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Public Library of Science (PLoS)
2016-02-01
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Series: | PLoS Biology |
Online Access: | https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pbio.1002386 |