Cellulose effects on morphology and elasticity of Vibrio fischeri biofilms

Bacteriology: Cellulose production by bacteria affects their growth patterns Different strains of the same bacterium show different sessile growth characteristics according to the amount of cellulose they produce. A team at Israel’s Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, headed by Moshe Herzberg, exami...

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Main Authors: Christopher Ziemba, Yael Shabtai, Maria Piatkovsky, Moshe Herzberg
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Nature Publishing Group 2016-11-01
Series:npj Biofilms and Microbiomes
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1038/s41522-016-0001-2