The role of quorum sensing mediated developmental traits in the resistance of Serratia marcescens biofilms against protozoan grazing

Environmental Microbiology

Volumn 8, Issue 6, 2006, Pages 1017-1025

  Queck, Shu Yeong ^a   Weitere, Markus ^a,b   Moreno, Ana María ^a   Rice, Scott A ^a   Kjelleberg, Staffan ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEW SOUTH WALES   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF COLOGNE   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACANTHAMOEBA; ANIMAL; ARTICLE; BIOFILM; CYTOLOGY; FEEDING BEHAVIOR; FLAGELLATE; GENETICS; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; PHYSIOLOGY; SERRATIA MARCESCENS; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION;

ACANTHAMOEBA; ANIMALS; BIOFILMS; FEEDING BEHAVIOR; KINETOPLASTIDA; SERRATIA MARCESCENS; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION;

ACANTHAMOEBA; ACANTHAMOEBA POLYPHAGA; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); BODO SALTANS; MASTIGOPHORA (FLAGELLATES); PROTOZOA; SERRATIA MARCESCENS;

EID: 33745156086     PISSN: 14622912     EISSN: 14622920     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1462-2920.2006.00993.x     Document Type: Article

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