Article
Social conflict drives the evolutionary divergence of quorum sensing.
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America - 16 Aug 2011
Eldar Avigdor
Abstract excerpt
In microbial "quorum sensing" (QS) communication systems, microbes produce and respond to a signaling molecule, enabling a cooperative response at high cell densities. Many species of bacteria show fast, intraspecific, evolutionary divergence of their QS pathway specificity--signaling molecules activate cognate receptors in the same strain but fail to activate, and sometimes inhibit, those of other strains....
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