quorum sensing

id: GO:0009372
name: quorum sensing
namespace: biological_process
type: go
obsolete: False

Description: The process in which single-celled organisms monitor their population density by detecting the concentration of small, diffusible signal molecules produced by the cells themselves.

Child Functions

idname
GO:0052097interspecies quorum sensing
GO:0052100intraspecies quorum sensing

Parent Functions

idname
GO:0048874homeostasis of number of cells in a free-living population