Bacterial cooperation in the wild and in the clinic: are pathogen social behaviours relevant outside the laboratory?
(2013)
Journal Article
Harrison, F. (2013). Bacterial cooperation in the wild and in the clinic: are pathogen social behaviours relevant outside the laboratory?. BioEssays, 35(2), https://doi.org/10.1002/bies.201200154
Individual bacterial cells can communicate via quorum sensing, cooperate to harvest nutrients from their environment, form multicellular biofilms, compete over resources and even kill one another. When the environment that bacteria inhabit is an anim... Read More about Bacterial cooperation in the wild and in the clinic: are pathogen social behaviours relevant outside the laboratory?.