Shaping the growth behaviour of biofilms initiated from bacterial aggregates

PLoS ONE

Volumn 11, Issue 3, 2016, Pages

  Melaugh, Gavin ^a   Hutchison, Jaime ^b   Kragh, Kasper Nørskov ^c   Irie, Yasuhiko ^d,e   Roberts, Aled ^d   Bjarnsholt, Thomas ^c,f   Diggle, Stephen P ^d   Gordon, Vernita D ^b   Allen, Rosalind J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF COPENHAGEN   (Denmark)

^d UNIVERSITY OF NOTTINGHAM   (United Kingdom)

^e University of Bath   (United Kingdom)

^f UNIVERSITY OF COPENHAGEN   (Denmark)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL CELL; BEHAVIOR; BIOFILM; CHEMICAL BINDING; COMPETITION; COMPUTER SIMULATION; HEIGHT; HUMAN; SOCIAL EVOLUTION; BACTERIUM ADHERENCE; CELLULAR, SUBCELLULAR AND MOLECULAR BIOLOGICAL PHENOMENA AND FUNCTIONS; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; PHYSIOLOGICAL PROCESS; PHYSIOLOGY; PLANKTON;

BACTERIAL ADHESION; BIOFILMS; BIOLOGICAL PHENOMENA; COMPUTER SIMULATION; PHYSIOLOGICAL PHENOMENA; PLANKTON;

EID: 84960919584     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0149683     Document Type: Article

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