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Competition sensing: the social side of bacterial stress responses

, and . Nat Rev Micro, 11 (4): 285--293 (Apr 4, 2013)
DOI: 10.1038/nrmicro2977

Abstract

The field of ecology has long recognized two types of competition: exploitative competition, which occurs indirectly through resource consumption, and interference competition, whereby one individual directly harms another. Here, we argue that these two forms of competition have played a dominant role in the evolution

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