Development of a laboratory model of a phototroph-heterotroph mixed-species biofilm at the stone/air interface

Frontiers in Microbiology

Volumn 6, Issue NOV, 2015, Pages

  Villa, Federica ^a,b   Pitts, Betsey ^a   Lauchnor, Ellen ^a   Cappitelli, Francesca ^b   Stewart, Philip S ^a  

^a MONTANA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MILAN   (Italy)

Author keywords

Dual species subaerial biofilm; Lab scale system; Phototroph heterotroph interactions; Stone monuments; Subaerial biofilms

Indexed keywords

BIOCIDE; OXYGEN;

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GROWTH; BIOFILM; CELL COUNT; CONFOCAL LASER MICROSCOPY; DESICCATION; ESCHERICHIA COLI; FIELD EMISSION SCANNING ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; GROWTH RATE; HETEROTROPH; MICROELECTRODE; NONHUMAN; PH; PHOTOTROPH; SYNECHOCYSTIS; THICKNESS;

EID: 84949774155     PISSN: None     EISSN: 1664302X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3389/fmicb.2015.01251     Document Type: Article

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