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Surface colonization by marine roseobacters: integrating genotype and phenotype.
Applied and environmental microbiology - 1 Oct 2009
Slightom Rachael N, Buchan Alison
Abstract excerpt
The Roseobacter clade is a broadly distributed, abundant, and biogeochemically relevant group of marine bacteria. Representatives are often associated with organic surfaces in disparate marine environments, suggesting that a sessile lifestyle is central to the ecology of lineage members. The importance of surface association and colonization has been demonstrated recently for select strains, and it has been...
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