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Self-Organization, Layered Structure, and Aggregation Enhance Persistence of a Synthetic Biofilm Consortium

Microbial consortia constitute a majority of the earth's biomass, but little is known about how these cooperating communities persist despite competition among community members. Theory suggests that non-random spatial structures contribute to the persistence of mixed communities; when particul...

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Autores principales: Brenner, Katie, Arnold, Frances H.
Formato: Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Public Library of Science 2011
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3036657/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/21347422
http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0016791