Microbes at Surface-Air Interfaces: The Metabolic Harnessing of Relative Humidity,Surface Hygroscopicity and Oligotrophy or Resilience

Microbes at Surface-Air Interfaces: The Metabolic Harnessing of Relative Humidity,Surface Hygroscopicity and Oligotrophy or Resilience

The human environment is predominantly not aqueous, and microbes are ubiquitous at the surface-air interfaces with which we interact. Yet microbial studies at surface-air interfaces are largely survival-oriented, whilst microbial metabolism has overwhelmingly been investigated from the perspective o...

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Main Authors: Wendy Stone, Otini Kroukamp, Darren R. Korber, Jennifer McKelvie, Gideon M. Wolfaardt
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Frontiers Media S.A. 2016-09-01
Series:Frontiers in Microbiology
Subjects:
Desiccation
Metabolism
Surface Properties
Biofilm
oligotrophy
clay
Online Access:http://journal.frontiersin.org/Journal/10.3389/fmicb.2016.01563/full

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