[Boiler Plate]

Ho Hum. This kind of signaling has been known for fifty years. It's really embarassing what the gene-sequencing people will shout about.

Really? Who first came across it at the microbe level?

I just read Prey and to be honest, it is one the scariest books I've read in a while. Still the concepts in it are wonderfully intriguing. I wonder if we are closer to the possiblities Crichtdon wrote about than we thought.

Regards,
Boiler Plate

[struwwelpeter]

E. coli is able to transmit antibiotic resistance to Salmonella sp and other pathogens. This has been known at least since I took micro in the 1980s.

Sounds like another quasi-Nobel prize for a deserving minority article.