Microbial Metropolis

Advances in Microbial Physiology

Volumn 56, Issue , 2009, Pages 29-84

  Wimpenny, Julian ^a  

^a CARDIFF UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GINGER BEER; KEFIR; KOMBUCHA; MICROBIAL PRODUCTS NOT CLASSIFIED ELSEWHERE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ALTRUISM; ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANCE; BACTERIUM ADHERENCE; BIOFILM; BOOK; CAULOBACTER; COMPETITION; COOPERATION; GENETIC MANIPULATION; GRAM POSITIVE BACTERIUM; KIN SELECTION; MICROBIAL COMMUNITY; NONHUMAN; PARASITISM; PLANKTON; PREDATION; PROTEOBACTERIA; PSEUDOMONAS AERUGINOSA; QUORUM SENSING; SERRATIA; SESSILE SPECIES; STAPHYLOCOCCUS; SYMBIOSIS; TOOTH PLAQUE; VIBRIO CHOLERAE; ANIMAL; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; BIOMASS; ECOSYSTEM; EVOLUTION; FOOD CONTROL; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; HUMAN;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); ZINGIBER OFFICINALE;

ANIMALS; BACTERIAL ADHESION; BIOFILMS; BIOLOGICAL EVOLUTION; BIOMASS; DRUG RESISTANCE, BACTERIAL; ECOSYSTEM; FOOD MICROBIOLOGY; HUMANS; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; QUORUM SENSING;

EID: 77957242445     PISSN: 00652911     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1016/S0065-2911(09)05602-1     Document Type: Chapter

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