Social Evolution Selects for Redundancy in Bacterial Quorum Sensing

Eran Even-Tov; Shira Omer Bendori; Julie Valastyan; Xiaobo Ke; Shaul Pollak; Tasneem Bareia; Ishay Ben-Zion; Bonnie L. Bassler; Avigdor Eldar

doi:10.1371/journal.pbio.1002386

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Social Evolution Selects for Redundancy in Bacterial Quorum Sensing

Eran Even-Tov ,

Contributed equally to this work with: Eran Even-Tov, Shira Omer Bendori

Affiliation Department of Molecular Microbiology and Biotechnology, Faculty of Life Sciences, Tel-Aviv University, Tel-Aviv, Israel
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Shira Omer Bendori ,

Contributed equally to this work with: Eran Even-Tov, Shira Omer Bendori

Affiliation Department of Molecular Microbiology and Biotechnology, Faculty of Life Sciences, Tel-Aviv University, Tel-Aviv, Israel
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Julie Valastyan,

Affiliation Department of Molecular Biology, Princeton University, Princeton, New Jersey, United States of America
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Xiaobo Ke,

Affiliation Department of Molecular Biology, Princeton University, Princeton, New Jersey, United States of America
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Shaul Pollak,

Affiliation Department of Molecular Microbiology and Biotechnology, Faculty of Life Sciences, Tel-Aviv University, Tel-Aviv, Israel
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Tasneem Bareia,

Affiliation Department of Molecular Microbiology and Biotechnology, Faculty of Life Sciences, Tel-Aviv University, Tel-Aviv, Israel
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Ishay Ben-Zion,

Affiliation Department of Molecular Microbiology and Biotechnology, Faculty of Life Sciences, Tel-Aviv University, Tel-Aviv, Israel
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Bonnie L. Bassler,

Affiliations Department of Molecular Biology, Princeton University, Princeton, New Jersey, United States of America, Howard Hughes Medical Institute, Chevy Chase, Maryland, United States of America
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Avigdor Eldar

* E-mail: avigdor@tau.ac.il

Affiliation Department of Molecular Microbiology and Biotechnology, Faculty of Life Sciences, Tel-Aviv University, Tel-Aviv, Israel
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Social Evolution Selects for Redundancy in Bacterial Quorum Sensing

Eran Even-Tov,
Shira Omer Bendori,
Julie Valastyan,
Xiaobo Ke,
Shaul Pollak,
Tasneem Bareia,
Ishay Ben-Zion,
Bonnie L. Bassler,
Avigdor Eldar

Published: February 29, 2016
https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pbio.1002386

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