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SUBMITTER: Calcagnile M
PROVIDER: S-EPMC6955855 | biostudies-literature | 2019 Dec
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Calcagnile Matteo M Tredici Salvatore Maurizio SM Talà Adelfia A Alifano Pietro P
Insects 20191208 12
A peculiar feature of all living beings is their capability to communicate. With the discovery of the quorum sensing phenomenon in bioluminescent bacteria in the late 1960s, it became clear that intraspecies and interspecies communications and social behaviors also occur in simple microorganisms such as bacteria. However, at that time, it was difficult to imagine how such small organisms-invisible to the naked eye-could influence the behavior and wellbeing of the larger, more complex and visible ...[more]