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You Talking to Me? Quorum Sensing in Symbiotic Microbes and Their Response to Environmental Variation

Pedro Antonio Pérez-Ferrer1, Michele Kiyoko Nishiguchi1

  • 1Molecular and Cell Biology Department, School of Natural Sciences, University of California Merced, Merced, CA 95343, USA.

Microorganisms
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autoinducersbacterial communicationenvironmental modulationhost–microbe symbiosispHquorum sensingsignal stabilitytemperature

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