The social activities and organization of bacteria are crucial to their ecological success. But it is only in recent years that we have begun to study these secret societies.
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Kolter, R., Greenberg, E. The superficial life of microbes. Nature 441, 300–302 (2006). https://doi.org/10.1038/441300a
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