Cell density-regulated recovery of starved biofilm populations of ammonia-oxidizing bacteria

Applied and Environmental Microbiology

Volumn 63, Issue 6, 1997, Pages 2281-2286

  Batchelor, S E ^a,c   Cooper, M ^a,d   Chhabra, S R ^b   Glover, L A ^a   Stewart, G S A B ^b   Williams, P ^b   Prosser, J I ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ABERDEEN   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NOTTINGHAM   (United Kingdom)

^c Balgownie Technology Centre   (United Kingdom)

^d ROYAL HOSPITAL FOR SICK CHILDREN   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMMONIA; HOMOSERINE; LACTONE;

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GROWTH; BIOFILM; CELL DENSITY; NITROSOMONAS; NONHUMAN; STARVATION;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); NEGIBACTERIA; NITROSOMONADALES; NITROSOMONAS EUROPAEA;

EID: 0030921307     PISSN: 00992240     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/aem.63.6.2281-2286.1997     Document Type: Article

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