Vibrio cholerae strains possess multiple strategies for abiotic and biotic surface colonization

Journal of Bacteriology

Volumn 189, Issue 14, 2007, Pages 5348-5360

  Mueller, Ryan S ^a   McDougald, Diane ^b   Cusumano, Danielle ^a   Sodhi, Nidhi ^b   Kjelleberg, Staffan ^b   Azam, Farooq ^a   Bartlett, Douglas H ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA SAN DIEGO   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NEW SOUTH WALES   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FRESH WATER;

ABIOTIC STRESS; AMINO ACID METABOLISM; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL COLONIZATION; BACTERIOPLANKTON; BACTERIUM MUTANT; BIOFILM; BIOTIC STRESS; CELL MOTILITY; ESTUARY; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENE LOCUS; ION TRANSPORT; LINGULODINIUM POLYEDRUM; MARINE ENVIRONMENT; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPECIES DIFFERENCE; STRAIN IDENTIFICATION; TRANSPOSON; VIBRIO CHOLERAE;

BACTERIAL ADHESION; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; BIOFILMS; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, BACTERIAL; MICROSCOPY, FLUORESCENCE; MUTATION; PLANKTON; VIBRIO CHOLERAE;

COPEPODA; DINOPHYCEAE; LINGULODINIUM POLYEDRUM; TIGRIOPUS CALIFORNICUS; VIBRIO CHOLERAE;

EID: 34447499011     PISSN: 00219193     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/JB.01867-06     Document Type: Article

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