Like ants, termites and bees, some bacteria work together as a multicellular group. There is a strict division of labor in such colonies, to make the group more resilient to the outside world. Now researchers have found that some parts of the bacterial colony can take “for the greater good” to a whole new level. Their study is published in Nature Communications.
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