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New Research Suggests Bacteria Are Social Microorganisms
MIT scientists: Bacteria plays different social roles, including attacking and defending other bacteria
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Scientist from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, along with researchers from the French Research Institute for Exploitation of the Sea and Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution in Massachusetts, studied whether population-level organization exists for bacteria in the wild. They assembled an all-against-all battleground for 185 closely-related, but distinct, members of an ocean-based family of bacteria called Vibrionaceae and examined about 35,000 chemical reactions to determine whether some bacteria play different social roles.
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The researchers' work is described in the September 7, 2012 issue of the journal Science.
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