Density-dependent fitness benefits in quorum-sensing bacterial populations

It has been argued that bacteria communicate using small diffusible signal molecules to coordinate, among other things, the production of factors that are secreted outside of the cells in a process known as quorum sensing (QS). The underlying assumption made to explain QS is that the secretion of th...

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Main Authors: Darch, Sophie E., West, Stuart A., Winzer, Klaus, Diggle, Stephen P.
Format: Article
Published: National Academy of Sciences 2012
Online Access:https://eprints.nottingham.ac.uk/2732/