Sociomicrobiology: The connections between quorum sensing and biofilms

Trends in Microbiology

Volumn 13, Issue 1, 2005, Pages 27-33

  Parsek, Matthew R ^a   Greenberg, E P ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF IOWA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL COLONIZATION; BACTERIAL GENETICS; BACTERIAL GROWTH; BIOFILM; CELL ADHESION; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; DISPERSION; DISSOLUTION; GENE CONTROL; GENE EXPRESSION; GENETIC PROCEDURES; HELICOBACTER PYLORI; IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION; MICROBIAL POPULATION DYNAMICS; MOLECULAR INTERACTION; MUTATIONAL ANALYSIS; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; RHODOBACTER; SALMONELLA ENTERICA; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; SOCIOBIOLOGY; VIBRIO FISCHERI;

ADAPTATION, PHYSIOLOGICAL; BIOFILMS; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, BACTERIAL; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); GOES; HELICOBACTER PYLORI; NEGIBACTERIA; RHODOBACTER; SALMONELLA ENTERICA; VIBRIO FISCHERI;

EID: 11444252559     PISSN: 0966842X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.tim.2004.11.007     Document Type: Review

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