quorum sensing

noun

noun

A proposed method of communication between bacterial cells by the release and sensing of small diffusible signal molecules.

An early case of quorum sensing to be uncovered involves—appropriately for this book—the sea and a cephalopod.2016, Peter Godfrey-Smith, Other Minds, William Collins, published 2018, page 18:

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