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Microbiology

the proposal that dormant microbes wake at random as scouts which test conditions and, if favorable, signal the rest of the population.

In microbiology, scout hypothesis refers to the proposal that dormant microbes wake at random as scouts which test conditions and, if favorable, signal the rest of the population. This meaning comes from Buerger (2012) in Applied and Environmental Microbiology.[1]

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References

Buerger, S., Spoering, A., Gavrish, E., Leslin, C., Ling, L., & Epstein, S. S. (2012). Microbial Scout Hypothesis, Stochastic Exit from Dormancy, and the Nature of Slow Growers. Applied and Environmental Microbiology, 78(9), 3221-3228. https://doi.org/10.1128/aem.07307-11

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