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Chemical communication through which microorganisms regulate behavior in response to the local concentration of signaling molecules and population density.
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- bacterial quorum sensing
- quorum-sensing signal
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Quorum sensing switched the colony into a new pattern of growth.
The interrupted quorum-sensing signal prevented the bacteria from coordinating.
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Primary category: sci-fi. Forms: Usually uncountable. Legacy lexical fields mirror sense 1 only. Use numbered sense fields for all meanings.
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