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Nutrient reduction induced stringent responses promote bacterial quorum-sensing divergence for population fitness.
Scientific reports - 7 Oct 2016
Zhao Kelei, Zhou Xikun, Li Wujiao, Zhang Xiuyue, Yue Bisong
Abstract excerpt
Bacteria use a cell-cell communication system termed quorum-sensing (QS) to adjust population size by coordinating the costly but beneficial cooperative behaviors. It has long been suggested that bacterial social conflict for expensive extracellular products may drive QS divergence and cause the "tragedy of the commons". However, the underlying molecular mechanism of social divergence and its evolutionary...
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