Bacteria as multicellular organisms /

Bacteria as multicellular organisms / edited by James A. Shapiro & Martin Dworkin. - New York ; Oxford : Oxford University Press, 1997. - xiii,466p. : ill. 24cm

Includes bibliographical references and index.

This study is devoted to multicellular aspects of bacterial life. It shows how bacteria are sentient, interactive organisms with a broad repertoire of chemical and physical mechanisms for signalling each other and organizing themselves into multicellular aggregates with novel properties.

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Bacteria--Ecology
Microbial aggregation
Biology, life sciences
Microbiology (non-medical)
Molecular biology

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