The fitness burden imposed by synthesising quorum sensing signals
It is now well established that bacterial populations utilize cell-to-cell signaling (quorum-sensing, QS) to control the production of public goods and other co-operative behaviours. Evolutionary theory predicts that both the cost of signal production and the response to signals should incur fitness...
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| Format: | Article |
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2016
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| Online Access: | https://eprints.nottingham.ac.uk/37087/ |