Probing prokaryotic social behaviors with bacterial "lobster traps"

mBio

Volumn 1, Issue 4, 2010, Pages

  Connell, Jodi L ^a   Wessel, Aimee K ^a   Parsek, Matthew R ^b   Ellington, Andrew D ^a   Whiteley, Marvin ^a   Shear, Jason B ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GENTAMICIN;

ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANCE; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL CELL; BACTERIAL CELL WALL; BACTERIAL STRAIN; BACTERIAL VIRULENCE; BACTERIUM ADHERENCE; BIOFILM; CELL COUNT; CELL DENSITY; CELL MEMBRANE PERMEABILITY; CELL MEMBRANE TRANSPORT; CELL POPULATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; MICROBIAL ACTIVITY; NONHUMAN; NUTRIENT; PHENOTYPE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROKARYOTE; QUORUM SENSING; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); PROKARYOTA; PSEUDOMONAS AERUGINOSA;

EID: 79951865674     PISSN: None     EISSN: 21507511     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/mBio.00202-10     Document Type: Article

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