Altruistic feeding and cell-cell signaling during bacterial differentiation actively enhance phenotypic heterogeneity
Taylor B. Updegrove, Thomas Delerue, Vivek Anantharaman, Hyo Moon Cho, Carissa Chan, Thomas Nipper, Hyoyoung Choo‐Wosoba, Lisa M. Miller Jenkins, Lixia Zhang, Yijun P. Su, Hari Shroff, Jiji Chen, Carole A. Bewley, L. Aravind, Kumaran S. Ramamurthi
This study shows that bacterial differentiation through altruistic feeding and cell-cell signaling increases phenotypic heterogeneity, enhancing population resilience to environmental changes.
Science Advances · Oct 18, 2024Peer-reviewedMicrobiology