Revised paradigm of aquatic biofilm formation facilitated by microgel transparent exopolymer particles

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

Volumn 109, Issue 23, 2012, Pages 9119-9124

  Bar Zeev, Edo ^a   Berman Frank, Ilana ^a   Girshevitz, Olga ^a   Berman, Tom ^b  

^a BAR ILAN UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

^b ISRAEL OCEANOGRAPHIC AND LIMNOLOGICAL RESEARCH   (Israel)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

POLYMER; SEA WATER;

AQUATIC ENVIRONMENT; ARTICLE; ATOMIC FORCE MICROSCOPY; BIOFILM; BRIGHT FIELD MICROSCOPY; COASTAL WATERS; COLLOID; CONFOCAL LASER MICROSCOPY; CONTROLLED STUDY; EPIFLUORESCENCE MICROSCOPY; GEL; MICROBIAL COLONIZATION; MICROBIAL GROWTH; NONHUMAN; PLANKTON; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TRANSPARENT EXOPOLYMER PARTICLE;

BACTERIAL ADHESION; BIOFILMS; GELS; MICROSCOPY, ATOMIC FORCE; MICROSCOPY, CONFOCAL; MICROSCOPY, FLUORESCENCE; ORGANIC CHEMICALS; PLANKTON; POLYMERS; SEAWATER;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS);

EID: 84861842418     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: 10916490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1203708109     Document Type: Article

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