Pneumococcal quorum sensing drives an asymmetric owner-intruder competitive strategy during carriage via the competence regulon

. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2019 Jul 1.

Published in final edited form as: Nat Microbiol. 2018 Dec 10;4(1):198–208. doi: 10.1038/s41564-018-0314-4

Event	Change	Notation	Probability
Resident cell duplication	ΔR = +1	B_R	r_RR
Challenger cell duplication	ΔC = +1	B_C	r_CC
Resident cell death	ΔR = −1	D_R	$r_{R} R (\frac{R + α_{C R} C}{K})$
Challenger cell death	ΔC = −1	D_C	$r_{C} C (\frac{C + α_{R C} R}{K})$