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Biofilm, City of Microbes
Journal of Bacteriology · 2000 · Vol. 182(10) · pp. 2675–2679
Paula I. Watnick✉(Massachusetts General Hospital)Roberto Kolter(Harvard University)
Abstract
In most natural environments, association with a surface in a structure known as a biofilm is the prevailing microbial lifestyle. Surface association is an efficient means of lingering in a favorable microenvironment rather than being swept away by the current. Taken to the extreme, we may view the
Bacterial biofilms and quorum sensingMicrobial Community Ecology and PhysiologyMarine Biology and Environmental ChemistryBiofilmBiologyExtreme environmentNatural (archaeology)EcologyMicrobiologyBacteriaGeneticsPaleontology
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Biofilms
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