New mechanisms of ‘social networking’ in bacteria discovered

7 abril 2015

Bacteria have traditionally been viewed as solitary organisms that ‘hang out on their own,’ says a molecular biologist. However, scientists now realize that in fact, bacteria exhibit social behavior within groups. In a new paper, researchers describe how they deciphered this bacterial communication to reveal new mechanisms of regulating gene expression in the model bacterium Bacillus subtilis.
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