Programming stress-induced altruistic death in engineered bacteria
Altruistic death is shown to confer a population level advantage in engineered E. coli. Cost-benefit trade-offs are analyzed and altruistic death is shown to account for the 'Eagle effect', whereby bacteria appear to grow better in high antibiotics concentrations.
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| Format: | Online |
| Language: | English |
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Nature Publishing Group
2012
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| Online Access: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3531911/ |