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
id | name |
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GO:0052097 | interspecies quorum sensing |
GO:0052100 | intraspecies quorum sensing |
Parent Functions
id | name |
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GO:0048874 | homeostasis of number of cells in a free-living population |