ArticleFrontiers in microbiology2017
Why Quorum Sensing Controls Private Goods.
Article in Frontiers in microbiology, 2017. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. An erratum has been issued. Cited by 24 papers.
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- SOCfinder: a genomic tool for identifying social genes in bacteria.Microbial genomics · 2023Article
- Signatures of kin selection in a natural population of the bacteriaEvolution letters · 2023Article
- Quorum sensing as a mechanism to harness the wisdom of the crowds.Nature communications · 2023Article
- Quorum sensing: cell-to-cell communication inFrontiers in microbiology · 2023Review
- Intertemporal trade-off between population growth rate and carrying capacity during public good production.iScience · 2022Article
- Kin selection for cooperation in natural bacterial populations.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2022Article
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- Tobramycin Adaptation Enhances Policing of Social Cheaters in Pseudomonas aeruginosa.Applied and environmental microbiology · 2021Article
- A Bacterial Tower of Babel: Quorum-Sensing Signaling Diversity and Its Evolution.Annual review of microbiology · 2020Review
- Eco-Evolutionary Effects of Bacterial Cooperation on Phage Therapy: An Unknown Risk?Frontiers in microbiology · 2020Article
- Bacterial Cheaters Evade Punishment by Cyanide.iScience · 2019Article
- New insight into bacterial social communication in natural host: Evidence for interplay of heterogeneous and unison quorum response.PLoS genetics · 2019Article
- Dynamics of cheater invasion in a cooperating population of Pseudomonas aeruginosa.Scientific reports · 2019Article
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Abstract
Cell-cell communication, also termed quorum sensing (QS), is a widespread process that coordinates gene expression in bacterial populations. The generally accepted view is that QS optimizes the cell density-dependent benefit attained from cooperative behaviors, often in the form of secreted products referred to as "public goods." This view is challenged by an increasing number of cell-associated products or "private goods" reported to be under QS-control for which a collective benefit is not apparent. A prominent example is nucleoside hydrolase from
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