Microbial landscapes: New paths to biofilm research

Nature Reviews Microbiology

Volumn 5, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 76-81

  Battin, Tom J ^a,b   Sloan, William T ^c   Kjelleberg, Staffan ^d   Daims, Holger ^a   Head, Ian M ^e   Curtis, Tom P ^e   Eberl, Leo ^f  

^a UNIVERSITY OF VIENNA   (Austria)

^b Biofilm and Ecosystem Research Group   (Austria)

^c UNIVERSITY OF GLASGOW   (United Kingdom)

^d UNIVERSITY OF NEW SOUTH WALES   (Australia)

^e NEWCASTLE UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^f UNIVERSITY OF ZURICH   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BIOFILM; CELL COMMUNICATION; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; COMMENSALISM; COMMUNITY ECOLOGY; ECOLOGICAL NICHE; LANDSCAPE ECOLOGY; MICROBIAL ACTIVITY; MICROBIAL COLONIZATION; MICROBIAL GENETICS; MICROBIAL POPULATION DYNAMICS; MICROFLORA; NONHUMAN; PHENOTYPIC VARIATION; POPULATION DISPERSAL; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUORUM SENSING; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; SYMBIOSIS; SYSTEMS BIOLOGY; TOPOGRAPHY;

BACTERIAL PHYSIOLOGY; BIOFILMS; ECOSYSTEM;

EID: 33845625705     PISSN: 17401526     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nrmicro1556     Document Type: Article

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