Sentence examples for contain a quorum from inspiring English sources
At low quorum thresholds (nq = 2 and nq = 3) and a low rate of diffusion, the QS machinery is too expensive because sufficiently often neighborhoods will contain a quorum of unconditional cooperators, and the QS alleles are not selected.
The P. aeruginosa genome also contains a diversity of quorum-sensing (QS) systems.
In addition, many quorum-sensing regulated genes contain an 18 to 20-bp long imperfect palindromic sequence upstream of their initiator codon.
With increasing quorum threshold the scope for parasitism by non-cooperators becomes smaller and as a consequence a larger fraction of the population will consist of cooperators, as long as neighborhoods sufficiently often contain at least a quorum of cooperators.
Licciardello G, Bertani I, Steindler L, Bella P, Venturi V, Catara V. Pseudomonas corrugata contains a conserved N-acyl homoserine lactone quorum sensing system; its role in tomato pathogenicity and tobacco hypersensitivity response.
Biosensors strains contain quorum sensing regulatory promoters fused to lux operon or lacZ and lack AHL synthase enzyme.
We describe the generation of robust but unexpected oscillations in the densities of bacterium Escherichia coli populations by simple synthetic suicide circuits containing quorum components and a lysis gene.
Because a minimum voter turnout of 50% was required, the new parliament contained only 119 deputies (well below the 174 needed for a quorum in the 260-seat assembly), including 44 Independents, 25 Agrarians, and 23 Communists.
This second medium could contain chemical cues or quorum sensing effectors that carry information on population density in the early stationary phase, but it is not depleted in nutrients.
The five-member commission has lacked a quorum since early February, putting new permits on hold.
Notably, in E. tasmaniensis Et1/99 the region included between ETA_09440 and ETA_09720 contains quorum-sensing genes expRI which are absent in E. pyrifoliae DSM 12163T.
