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Why do bacteria regulate public goods by quorum sensing?—How the shapes of cost and benefit functions determine the form of optimal regulation

Many bacteria secrete compounds which act as public goods. Such compounds are often under quorum sensing (QS) regulation, yet it is not understood exactly when bacteria may gain from having a public good under QS regulation. Here, we show that the optimal public good production rate per cell as a fu...

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Autores principales: Heilmann, Silja, Krishna, Sandeep, Kerr, Benjamin
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Frontiers Media S.A. 2015
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4517451/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/26284049
http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fmicb.2015.00767