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Nutrient reduction induced stringent responses promote bacterial quorum-sensing divergence for population fitness

Bacteria use a cell-cell communication system termed quorum-sensing (QS) to adjust population size by coordinating the costly but beneficial cooperative behaviors. It has long been suggested that bacterial social conflict for expensive extracellular products may drive QS divergence and cause the “tr...

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Autores principales: Zhao, Kelei, Zhou, Xikun, Li, Wujiao, Zhang, Xiuyue, Yue, Bisong
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Nature Publishing Group 2016
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5054682/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/27713502
http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/srep34925