Does efficiency sensing unify diffusion and quorum sensing?

Nature Reviews Microbiology

Volumn 5, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 230-239

  Hense, Burkhard A ^a   Kuttler, Christina ^a   Müller, Johannes ^a,b   Rothballer, Michael ^a   Hartmann, Anton ^a   Kreft, Jan Ulrich ^c  

^a INSTITUTE OF EPIDEMIOLOGY   (Germany)

^b TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY OF BONN   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL METABOLISM; BACTERIUM COLONY; CELL COMMUNICATION; CELL DENSITY; CELLULAR DISTRIBUTION; CHEMOTAXIS; DIFFUSION; FEEDBACK SYSTEM; MATHEMATICAL MODEL; MICROBIAL DIVERSITY; MICROBIAL POPULATION DYNAMICS; MOLECULAR INTERACTION; MOLECULAR RECOGNITION; MOLECULAR STABILITY; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUORUM SENSING; RHIZOSPHERE; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION;

BACTERIAL PHYSIOLOGY; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; BIODIVERSITY; DEMOGRAPHY; ENVIRONMENT; EVOLUTION; MICROBIOLOGY; POPULATION DENSITY; QUORUM SENSING; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION;

EID: 33847145453     PISSN: 17401526     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nrmicro1600     Document Type: Article

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