Social Evolution Selects for Redundancy in Bacterial Quorum Sensing.

Quorum sensing is a process of chemical communication that bacteria use to monitor cell density and coordinate cooperative behaviors. Quorum sensing relies on extracellular signal molecules and cognate receptor pairs. While a single quorum-sensing system is sufficient to probe cell density, bacteria...

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Main Authors: Eran Even-Tov, Shira Omer Bendori, Julie Valastyan, Xiaobo Ke, Shaul Pollak, Tasneem Bareia, Ishay Ben-Zion, Bonnie L Bassler, Avigdor Eldar
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2016-02-01
Series:PLoS Biology
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pbio.1002386