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Adaptive significance of quorum sensing-dependent regulation of public goods by integration of growth rate: a trade-off between survival and efficiency
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2016
bioRxiv
pre-print
Quorum sensing (QS) is a mechanism of communication used by bacteria to monitor cell density and coordinate cooperative behaviors. An emerging framework is that the adaptive significance of QS in regulation of production of costly extracellular metabolites (public goods) is to maintain the homeostasis of cooperation. We investigated the functionality of QS-dependent regulation of rhamnolipids, extracellular surface-active glycolipids promoting the social swarming motility behavior,
doi:10.1101/042739
fatcat:734l4fjkcnayvjkdwrdis4wnq4