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Phenotypic switching in biofilm-forming marine bacterium Paenibacillus lautus NE3B01.
Current microbiology - 1 May 2014
Mangwani Neelam, Kumari Supriya, Shukla Sudhir K, Rao T S, Das Surajit
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Biofilm-forming marine bacterium Paenibacillus lautus NE3B01 was isolated from a mangrove ecosystem, Odisha, India. This isolate formed a swarming type of colony pattern on the solid culture medium with 0.5-2 % agar. Phase contrast microscopy study of a growing colony of P. lautus on solid media and swarming pattern revealed the existence of two phenotypically distinct cells (i.e. cocci and rods) across the...
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