Oxygen Limitation within a Bacterial Aggregate
ABSTRACT Cells within biofilms exhibit physiological heterogeneity, in part because of chemical gradients existing within these spatially structured communities. Previous work has examined how chemical gradients develop in large biofilms containing >108 cells. However, many bacterial communities...
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Format: | Article |
Language: | English |
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American Society for Microbiology
2014-05-01
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Series: | mBio |
Online Access: | https://journals.asm.org/doi/10.1128/mBio.00992-14 |