Cooperation in the dark: Signalling and collective action in quorum-sensing bacteria

Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences

Volumn 268, Issue 1470, 2001, Pages 961-965

  Brown, Sam P ^a,b   Johnstone, Rufus A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

^b INSTITUT DES SCIENCES DE L EVOLUTION   (France)

Author keywords

Altruism; Bacterial ecology; Communication; Homoserine lactone; Sociality

Indexed keywords

ALTRUISM; ARTICLE; BACTERIUM; CELL DENSITY; COOPERATION; GENE EXPRESSION; NONHUMAN; PHENOTYPE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROKARYOTE;

EID: 0035820843     PISSN: 09628452     EISSN: 14712970     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rspb.2001.1609     Document Type: Article

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