An environment-sensitive synthetic microbial ecosystem

PLoS ONE

Volumn 5, Issue 5, 2010, Pages

  Hu, Bo ^a   Du, Jin ^a   Zou, Rui yang ^a   Yuan, Ying Jin ^a  

^a TIANJIN UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMPICILLIN; KANAMYCIN; ANTIINFECTIVE AGENT;

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GROWTH; BACTERIAL STRAIN; CELL DENSITY; COMMENSALISM; CONTROLLED STUDY; DRUG DETERMINATION; ECOSYSTEM; ENVIRONMENTAL FACTOR; ESCHERICHIA COLI; LIQUID CHROMATOGRAPHY; MATHEMATICAL ANALYSIS; MICROBIAL ECOSYSTEM; NONHUMAN; POPULATION DYNAMICS; QUORUM SENSING; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; SIMULATION; SYMBIOSIS; BACTERIAL COUNT; DRUG EFFECT; GENETICS; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; PHYSIOLOGY;

ANTI-BACTERIAL AGENTS; COLONY COUNT, MICROBIAL; ECOSYSTEM; ESCHERICHIA COLI; QUORUM SENSING; SYMBIOSIS;

EID: 77956280046     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0010619     Document Type: Article

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