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Multicellular behavior in bacteria: communication, cooperation, competition and cheating.

BioEssays : news and reviews in molecular, cellular and developmental biology - 1 Apr 2008

Dunny Gary M, Brickman Timothy J, Dworkin Martin

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The sociobiology of bacteria, largely unappreciated and ignored by the microbiology research community two decades ago is now a major research area, catalyzed to a significant degree by studies of communication and cooperative behavior among the myxobacteria and in quorum sensing (QS) and biofilm formation by pseudomonads and other microbes. Recently, the topic of multicellular cooperative behaviors among...

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PMID: 18348154
DOI: 10.1002/bies.20740

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