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Current Biology, Volume 17, Issue 23, R1021-R1024, 4 December 2007
doi:10.1016/j.cub.2007.10.011
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Signal Transduction: Networks and Integrated Circuits in Bacterial Cognition
Melinda D. Baker2 and Jeffry B. Stock1, 2, 
1 Department of Molecular Biology, Princeton University, Princeton, New Jersey 08544, USA
2 Department of Chemistry, Princeton University, Princeton, New Jersey 98544, USA
Summary
Signal transduction systems that mediate adaptive changes in gene expression to specific sensory inputs have been well characterized. Recent studies have focused on mechanisms that allow crosstalk between different information-processing modalities.
