Q&A: Cooperativity

doi:10.1186/jbiol157

Journal of Biology

Volume 8
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Q&A: Cooperativity

James E Ferrell Jr

Department of Chemical and Systems Biology, Stanford University School of Medicine, Stanford, CA 94305-5174, USA

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Journal of Biology 2009, 8:53doi:10.1186/jbiol157


Published:	16 June 2009

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Cooperativity is a type of behavior where a number of seemingly independent components of a system act collectively, in unison or near-unison. Think of a school of fish, a flock of birds, or a pack of lemmings. Cooperativity implies some sort of communication among the system's seemingly independent components.