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Trade-off between oxygen and iron acquisition in bacterial cells at the air-liquid interface.
FEMS microbiology ecology - 1 Jul 2011
Yamamoto Kyosuke, Arai Hiroyuki, Ishii Masaharu, Igarashi Yasuo
Abstract excerpt
The air-liquid interface is a selectively advantageous niche for aerobes due to the accessibility to oxygen. Various species of aerobes form a biofilm-like structure at air-liquid interfaces, known as a pellicle. Although the pellicle is one of the major growth modes of microorganisms, the metabolic features of pellicle cells and the determinative factors for pellicle formation are largely unknown. In this study,...
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