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Genome-genome interactions: bacterial communities in initial dental plaque.
Trends in microbiology - 1 Jan 2005
Kolenbrander Paul E, Egland Paul G, Diaz Patricia I, Palmer Robert J
Abstract excerpt
The usual context for genome-genome interactions is DNA-DNA interactions, but the manifestation of the genome is the cell. Here we focus on cell-cell interactions and relate them to the process of building multi-species biofilm communities. We propose that dental plaque communities originate as a result of intimate interactions between cells (genomes) of different species and not through clonal growth of...
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