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Multicellular behaviour enables cooperation in microbial cell aggregates

Oligosaccharides produced from the extracellular hydrolysis of biological materials can act as common goods that promote cooperative growth in microbial populations, whereby cell–cell aggregation increases both the per capita availability of resources and the per-cell growth rate. However, aggregati...

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Autores principales: Ebrahimi, Ali, Schwartzman, Julia, Cordero, Otto X.
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: The Royal Society 2019
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6792450/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/31587643
http://dx.doi.org/10.1098/rstb.2019.0077