The University of Chicago Header Logo

Quorum Sensing

"Quorum Sensing" is a descriptor in the National Library of Medicine's controlled vocabulary thesaurus, MeSH (Medical Subject Headings). Descriptors are arranged in a hierarchical structure, which enables searching at various levels of specificity.

expand / collapse MeSH information
A phenomenon where microorganisms communicate and coordinate their behavior by the accumulation of signaling molecules. A reaction occurs when a substance accumulates to a sufficient concentration. This is most commonly seen in bacteria.


expand / collapse publications
This graph shows the total number of publications written about "Quorum Sensing" by people in this website by year, and whether "Quorum Sensing" was a major or minor topic of these publications.
Bar chart showing 19 publications over 13 distinct years, with a maximum of 3 publications in 2007
To see the data from this visualization as text, click here.