Adaptive evolution in single species bacterial biofilms
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Adaptive evolution in single species bacterial biofilms.
Little is known about the dynamics of cellular growth, death, and evolution within bacterial biofilms. Here we show evidence of evolution within single-species biofilms in real time. Escherichia coli harvested from 22-day-old biofilms express a competitive advantage over cells incubated in biofilms for shorter periods of time. This advantage is manifested as the ability of aged cells to outcomp...
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عنوان ژورنال: FEMS Microbiology Letters
سال: 2009
ISSN: 0378-1097,1574-6968
DOI: 10.1111/j.1574-6968.2009.01526.x