And so we started to think if this really is about communication in bacteria, and it's about counting your neighbors, it's not enough to be able to only talk within your species.
そこで考えたのは、もしこれが本当に細菌同士のコミュニケーションで 同類を数えているとすれば 単に同種族だけを数えていては不十分だろうという事です