Biologists discover timesharing strategy in bacteria
Thursday, April 6, 2017 - 14:22
in Biology & Nature
Biologists have discovered that communities of bacteria have been employing a social timesharing strategy for millions of years. The team found that bacteria faced with limited nutrients will enter an elegant timesharing strategy -- a concept used in computer science, vacation homes and social application -- in which communities alternate feeding periods to maximize efficiency in consumption.