Intertemporal trade-off between population growth rate and carrying capacity during public good production.

Manasi S Gangan, Marcos M Vasconcelos, Urbashi Mitra, Odilon Câmara, James Q Boedicker

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Article in iScience, 2022. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 3 papers.

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Inhibition ofMicroorganisms · 2025
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Phenotypic memory in quorum sensing.PLoS computational biology · 2024
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Joint Detection and Communication over Type-Sensitive Networks.Entropy (Basel, Switzerland) · 2023
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Manasi S GanganDepartment of Physics and Astronomy, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA, USA.

Marcos M VasconcelosCommonweath Cyber-Initiative and Bradley Department of Electrical Engineering, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, Arlington, VA, USA.

Urbashi MitraMing Hsieh Department of Electrical & Computer Engineering, Department of Computer Science, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA, USA.

Odilon CâmaraUSC Marshall School of Business, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA, USA.

James Q BoedickerDepartment of Physics and Astronomy, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA, USA.

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Public goods are biomolecules that benefit cellular populations, such as by providing access to previously unutilized resources. Public good production is energetically costly. To reduce this cost, populations control public good biosynthesis, for example using density-dependent regulation accomplished by quorum sensing. Fitness costs and benefits of public good production must be balanced, similar to optimal investment decisions used in economics. We explore the regulation of a public good that increases the carrying capacity, through experimental measurements of growth in

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PMID35391831

DOI10.1016/j.isci.2022.104117

PMCPMC8980746

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