Bacterial cooperation in the wild and in the clinic: are pathogen social behaviours relevant outside the laboratory?
Individual bacterial cells can communicate via quorum sensing, cooperate to harvest nutrients from their environment, form multicellular biofilms, compete over resources and even kill one another. When the environment that bacteria inhabit is an animal host, these social behaviours mediate virulence...
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Wiley
2013
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| Online Access: | http://eprints.nottingham.ac.uk/2331/ http://eprints.nottingham.ac.uk/2331/ http://eprints.nottingham.ac.uk/2331/ http://eprints.nottingham.ac.uk/2331/1/Bacterial_cooperation_in_the_wild.pdf |