The Journal of Experimental Medicine, Vol 33, 583-591,
Copyright, 1921, by The Rockefeller Institute for Medical Research New York
COMMUNAL ACTIVITY OF BACTERIA
John W. Churchman M.D.1 and
Morton C. Kahn 1
1 From the Department of Hygiene of Cornell University Medical College, New York.
1. The behavior of a single bacterial cell toward gentian violet differs fundamentally from that of a small group of cells (thirty).
2. The explanation of this phenomenon is not purely quantitative; thirty cells accomplish much more than thirty times what one cell can accomplish.
Submitted on November 2, 1920