… uses quorum sensing (QS) to activate expression of dozens of genes (the QS regulon). …
size and content of the QS regulon, we asked how the regulon might evolve during long-term P. …

… regulon in V. campbellii consists of around 10% of the genome [29, 31]. Because regulons
… This architecture also means that the QS regulon includes genes relevant to both public and …

… regulons, and behavioral responses associated with quorum-… Studies of the role of quorum
sensing in cooperative and … question in evolutionary biology is how do cooperative systems …

… about cell population density. Quorum sensing allows bacteria to synchronize their behaviors
and act as collectives. Often, quorum sensing controls cooperative behaviors that benefit …

… By monitoring the evolutionary dynamics of cooperative and cheating behaviors in bacterial
IPG, we find that bacterial social structure can be readily diverged by the strategy shift of …

… Like any form of cooperative behavior, quorum sensing (QS) in … the evolutionary stability
of QS as a regulatory mechanism of antibiotics production in a spatially structured population, …

… evolved between signaling, cooperation, and other coregulated behaviors. Another important
distinction is that while these earlier examples primarily relied upon differences in growth …

… QS mutants could arise and spread due to (i) disuse of the regulon, (ii) cheating on the
cooperative benefits of QS, or (iii) modulation of one or several of the three systems. Here, we …

… Each quorum-sensing regulon is shown as a distinct entity, but in reality there is overlapping
… Signal-blind cheats invade cooperating populations to a greater extent when the cost of …

… quorum sensing (QS), often coordinates other cooperative … the sustained cooperative growth
of the evolved population. … size of the lasR-controlled QS regulon and the difference in the …