Division of Labor during Biofilm Matrix Production

Current Biology

Volumn 28, Issue 12, 2018, Pages 1903-1913.e5

  Dragoš, Anna ^a,b   Kiesewalter, Heiko ^a   Martin, Marivic ^a,b   Hsu, Chih Yu ^c   Hartmann, Raimo ^d   Wechsler, Tobias ^e   Eriksen, Carsten ^a   Brix, Susanne ^a   Drescher, Knut ^d,f   Stanley Wall, Nicola ^c   Kümmerli, Rolf ^e   Kovács, Ákos T ^a,b  

^a TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF DENMARK   (Denmark)

^b FRIEDRICH SCHILLER UNIVERSITY JENA   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY OF DUNDEE   (United Kingdom)

^d MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR TERRESTRIAL MICROBIOLOGY   (Germany)

^e UNIVERSITY OF ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^f PHILIPPS UNIVERSITY MARBURG   (Germany)

Author keywords

Bacillus subtilis; biofilm; competition; cooperation; division of labor; EPS; pellicle; phenotypic heterogeneity; plant colonization; TasA

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL POLYSACCHARIDE; BACTERIAL PROTEIN; EXOPOLYSACCHARIDE, BACILLUS; TASA PROTEIN, BACILLUS SUBTILIS;

BACILLUS SUBTILIS; BIOFILM; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; BIOLOGY; GENETICS; METABOLISM; MICROBIOLOGY; PHENOTYPE; PHYSIOLOGY;

BACILLUS SUBTILIS; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; BIOFILMS; COMPUTATIONAL BIOLOGY; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; PHENOTYPE; POLYSACCHARIDES, BACTERIAL; SOIL MICROBIOLOGY;

EID: 85047421039     PISSN: 09609822     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cub.2018.04.046     Document Type: Article

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