Big Picture Science / Quorum Sensing click to listen (trt 11:49)
Click above to listen to part 3 of You’ve Got Whale, featuring Peter Greenberg, professor of microbiology at the University of Washington, Seattle, describing the phenomenon of quorum sensing, wherein microbes use chemical signals to determine the size of their group, and take action when it reaches an appropriately high number.
BiPiSci – You’ve Got Whale: Peter Greenberg / Quorum Sensing
Previous post: BiPiSci – You’ve Got Whale: Simon Gilroy / Shrub Signals
Next post: Big Picture Science – You’ve Got Whale
