Survival of the first rather than the fittest in a Shewanella electrode biofilm
Eric Kees et al. explore whether ecological competition differs between surface-attached biofilms and planktonic culture using two differentially-reproducing strains of Shewanella oneidensis. They observed that, regardless of different growth rates, the first bacterial species to colonize a surface...
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| Format: | Article |
| Language: | English |
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Nature Publishing Group
2021-05-01
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| Series: | Communications Biology |
| Online Access: | https://doi.org/10.1038/s42003-021-02040-1 |