Gaming the competition in microbial cell–cell interactions
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Gaming the competition in microbial cell-cell interactions.
It helps to pay attention to an opponent’s prior actions when playing strategy games, be they chess, poker or rock-paper-scissors. In a thought provoking paper by Basler et al (2013), published in Cell, we have a chance to watch bacteria ‘game’ each other in a deadly match of life or death involving the deployment of a potent weapon called the Type VI Secretion System (T6SS; Basler et al, 2013)...
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عنوان ژورنال: The EMBO Journal
سال: 2013
ISSN: 0261-4189,1460-2075
DOI: 10.1038/emboj.2013.45