Kin selection, quorum sensing and virulence in pathogenic bacteria

Bacterial growth and virulence often depends upon the cooperative release of extracellular factors excreted in response to quorum sensing (QS).We carried out an in vivo selection experiment in mice to examine how QS evolves in response to variation in relatedness (strain diversity), and the conseq...

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Main Authors: Rumbaugh, Kendra P., Trivedi, Urvish, Watters, Chase, Burton-Chellew, Maxwell N., Diggle, Stephen P., West, Stuart A.
Format: Article
Published: Royal Society 2012
Online Access:https://eprints.nottingham.ac.uk/2733/