Macromotives and microbehaviors: the social dimension of bacterial phenotypic variability.

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Bacterial phenotypic variability--the display of multiple distinct phenotypes in a genetically homogenous population of bacteria-emerges as an adaptive response to conflicting challenges. This creates an opportunity for social interactions which are able to dynamically redistribute cell fates within a community and to directly share the benefits of the different fates. While social interactions between cell fates...

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