# quorum sensing

> process in which single-celled organisms monitor their population density by detecting the concentration of small, diffusible signal molecules produced by the cells themselves.

**Wikidata**: [Q905754](https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q905754)  
**Wikipedia**: [English](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quorum_sensing)  
**Source**: https://4ort.xyz/entity/quorum-sensing


## References

1. Gene Ontology release 2019-10-07
2. Gene Ontology release 2022-07-01
3. Freebase Data Dumps. 2013
4. BBC Things
5. UMLS 2023
6. Quora
7. [OpenAlex](https://docs.openalex.org/download-snapshot/snapshot-data-format)