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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Main Authors: Aimee K. Wessel, Talha A. Arshad, Mignon Fitzpatrick, Jodi L. Connell, Roger T. Bonnecaze, Jason B. Shear, Marvin Whiteley
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: American Society for Microbiology 2014-05-01
Series:mBio
Online Access:https://journals.asm.org/doi/10.1128/mBio.00992-14