Subinhibitory arsenite concentrations lead to population dispersal in thiomonas sp.

PLoS ONE

Volumn 6, Issue 8, 2011, Pages

  Marchal, Marie ^a   Briandet, Romain ^b   Halter, David ^a   Koechler, Sandrine ^a   DuBow, Michael S ^c   Lett, Marie Claire ^a   Bertin, Philippe N ^a  

^a UNIVERSITÉ DE STRASBOURG   (France)

^b UMR1319 MICALIS   (France)

^c UNIVERSITÉ PARIS SACLAY   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARSENIC TRIOXIDE; EXOPOLYSACCHARIDE; ARSENOUS ACID DERIVATIVE; BACTERIAL POLYSACCHARIDE; NUCLEIC ACID;

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GROWTH; BACTERIAL SURVIVAL; BACTERIUM; BACTERIUM COLONY; BIOFILM; CARBOHYDRATE SYNTHESIS; CELL DEATH; CELL MOTILITY; CELL STRESS; CONCENTRATION (PARAMETERS); CONTROLLED STUDY; CYTOLYSIS; ECOSYSTEM RESTORATION; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT; EXTRACELLULAR MATRIX; NONHUMAN; POPULATION DISPERSAL; THIOMONAS; THREE DIMENSIONAL IMAGING; BACTERIAL COUNT; BETAPROTEOBACTERIA; CYTOLOGY; DRUG EFFECT; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; METABOLISM; MOVEMENT (PHYSIOLOGY); PHYSIOLOGY;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); THIOMONAS;

ARSENITES; BETAPROTEOBACTERIA; BIOFILMS; COLONY COUNT, MICROBIAL; EXTRACELLULAR MATRIX; MOVEMENT; NUCLEIC ACIDS; POLYSACCHARIDES, BACTERIAL;

EID: 80051847165     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0023181     Document Type: Article

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