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Behavioral heterogeneity in quorum sensing can stabilize social cooperation in microbial populations

BACKGROUND: Microbial communities are susceptible to the public goods dilemma, whereby individuals can gain an advantage within a group by utilizing, but not sharing the cost of producing, public goods. In bacteria, the development of quorum sensing (QS) can establish a cooperation system in a popul...

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Autores principales: Zhao, Kelei, Liu, Linjie, Chen, Xiaojie, Huang, Ting, Du, Lianming, Lin, Jiafu, Yuan, Yang, Zhou, Yingshun, Yue, Bisong, Wei, Kun, Chu, Yiwen
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2019
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6889464/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/30841874
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12915-019-0639-3