ArticleFrontiers in microbiology2014
Collective decision-making in microbes.
Article in Frontiers in microbiology, 2014. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 18 papers.
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- Quorum sensing triggers the stochastic escape of individual cells from Pseudomonas putida biofilms.Nature communications · 2015Article
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- Collective intelligence meets medical decision-making: the collective outperforms the best radiologist.PloS one · 2015Article
- Bacterial stigmergy: an organising principle of multicellular collective behaviours of bacteria.Scientifica · 2015Review
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Abstract
Microbes are intensely social organisms that routinely cooperate and coordinate their activities to express elaborate population level phenotypes. Such coordination requires a process of collective decision-making, in which individuals detect and collate information not only from their physical environment, but also from their social environment, in order to arrive at an appropriately calibrated response. Here, we present a conceptual overview of collective decision-making as it applies to all group-living organisms; we introduce key concepts and principles developed in the context of animal and human group decisions; and we discuss, with appropriate examples, the applicability of each of these concepts in microbial contexts. In particular, we discuss the roles of information pooling, control skew, speed vs. accuracy trade-offs, local feedbacks, quorum thresholds, conflicts of interest, and the reliability of social information. We conclude that collective decision-making in microbes shares many features with collective decision-making in higher taxa, and we call for greater integration between this fledgling field and other allied areas of research, including in the humanities and the physical sciences.
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