Quorum Sensing: Alcohols in a Social Situation
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Many microbes use extracellular signals to transmit information about population density and environmental conditions. Recent evidence suggests that the budding yeast Saccharomyces cerevisiae exhibits this type of regulation and that the signals are aromatic alcohols.
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عنوان ژورنال:
- Current Biology
دوره 16 شماره
صفحات -
تاریخ انتشار 2006