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.
You’ve Got Whale:
Part 1: Susanna Blackwell / Narwhal Natter
Part 2: Simon Gilroy / Shrub Signals
Part 3: Peter Greenberg / Quorum Sensing
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