Bacterial quorum sensing and phenotypic heterogeneity: how the collective shapes the individual.

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Bacteria communicate with each other through a plethora of small, diffusible organic molecules called autoinducers. This cell-density-dependent regulatory principle is termed quorum sensing, and in many cases the process indeed coordinates group behavior of bacterial populations. Yet, even clonal bacterial populations are not uniform entities; rather, they adopt phenotypic heterogeneity to cope with consecutive,...

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