Microbial individuality: how single-cell heterogeneity enables population level strategies.

Abstract excerpt

Much of our knowledge of microbial life is only a description of average population behaviours, but modern technologies provide a more inclusive view and reveal that microbes also have individuality. It is now acknowledged that isogenic cell-to-cell heterogeneity is common across organisms and across different biological processes. This heterogeneity can be regulated and functional, rather than just reflecting...

Topics

Share this publication in a Topic to start or enrich a Post.

• Share to Bacteria
• Share to Gene Expression Regulation, Bacterial
• Share to Phenotype