It is increasingly evident that bacterial cells cooperate for many purposes. New results show that the bacterium Enterococcus uses cell–cell signalling to coordinate toxin production.
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Dunny, G. Group effort in toxin synthesis. Nature 415, 33–34 (2002). https://doi.org/10.1038/415033a
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