Look who's talking: Communication and quorum sensing in the bacterial world
(2007)
Journal Article
Williams, P., Winzer, K., Chan, W. C., & Cámara, M. (2007). Look who's talking: Communication and quorum sensing in the bacterial world. Philosophical Transactions B: Biological Sciences, 362(1483), 1119-1134. https://doi.org/10.1098/rstb.2007.2039
For many years bacteria were considered primarily as autonomous unicellular organisms with little capacity for collective behaviour. However, we now appreciate that bacterial cells are in fact, highly communicative. The generic term 'quorum sensing'... Read More about Look who's talking: Communication and quorum sensing in the bacterial world.