Surface-motility induction, attraction and hitchhiking between bacterial species promote dispersal on solid surfaces

ISME Journal

Volumn 8, Issue 5, 2014, Pages 1147-1151

  Hagai, Efrat ^a   Dvora, Reut ^a   Havkin Blank, Tal ^a   Zelinger, Einat ^a   Porat, Ziv ^b   Schulz, Stefan ^c   Helman, Yael ^a  

^a HEBREW UNIVERSITY OF JERUSALEM   (Israel)

^b WEIZMANN INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE   (Israel)

^c TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF BRAUNSCHWEIG   (Germany)

Author keywords

Paenibacillus; surface motility; Xanthomonas

Indexed keywords

BACTERIUM; DISPERSAL; FITNESS; MOTILITY; SURFACE AREA; GROWTH RATE; VORTEX;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); LYCOPERSICON ESCULENTUM; PAENIBACILLUS; XANTHOMONAS;

ARTICLE; LOCOMOTION; MICROBIOLOGY; ORGANISMAL INTERACTION; PAENIBACILLUS; PHYSIOLOGY; PLANT LEAF; XANTHOMONAS;

LOCOMOTION; MICROBIAL INTERACTIONS; PAENIBACILLUS; PLANT LEAVES; XANTHOMONAS;

EID: 84899492175     PISSN: 17517362     EISSN: 17517370     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/ismej.2013.218     Document Type: Article

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