Why even microbes will commit suicide
Wednesday, March 20, 2013 - 17:01
in Biology & Nature
By Jennifer ViegasDiscovery NewsA study on suicidal E. coli sheds light on why organisms throughout the animal kingdom, big and small, sometimes decide to do themselves in.The good news is that suicide appears to be comparatively rare in larger animals, but more common among microscopic life forms, such as microbes, according to the study, published in the latest Proceedings of the Royal Society B...