ReviewNature reviews. Microbiology2008
Inter-kingdom signalling: communication between bacteria and their hosts.
Review in Nature reviews. Microbiology, 2008. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 316 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.
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316 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it.
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- Diversity and evolution of quorum-sensing systems inFrontiers in bioinformatics · 2026Article
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Abstract
Microorganisms and their hosts communicate with each other through an array of hormonal signals. This cross-kingdom cell-to-cell signalling involves small molecules, such as hormones that are produced by eukaryotes and hormone-like chemicals that are produced by bacteria. Cell-to-cell signalling between bacteria, usually referred to as quorum sensing, was initially described as a means by which bacteria achieve signalling in microbial communities to coordinate gene expression within a population. Recent evidence shows, however, that quorum-sensing signalling is not restricted to bacterial cell-to-cell communication, but also allows communication between microorganisms and their hosts.
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