The sociobiology of biofilms.

By Carey D. Nadell, João B. Xavier, Kevin R. Foster. FEMS Microbiology Reviews, 2009

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Subfields: Ecology, Molecular Biology, Sociology and Political Science

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Horizontal transfer of antibiotic resistance genes in clinical environments. (2019, background): “Many bacterial species engage in 317 natural competence when living in biofilms, and quorum sensing in biofilms can even stimulate 318 competence in neighbouring species (Nadell et al. 2009; Seitz and Blokesch 2013).”
CONSEJO SUPERIOR DE INVESTIGACIONES CIENTÍFICAS (2009, background): “Esta etapa es importante, sobre todo desde el punto de vista ecológico, ya que permite la colonización de nuevos hábitats (revisado en Sauer et al., 2002; Kierek-Pearson y Karatan, 2005; Nadell et al., 2009).”
Emergence of Spatial Structure in Cell Groups and the Evolution of Cooperation (2010, background): “It is increasingly recognized that cells express many such social phenotypes [4,12], which are often involved in nutrient acquisition and pathogenesis [42–45].”
Bacterial Quorum-Sensing Network Architectures (2009, neutral): “Finally, many open questions remain regarding the evolutionary forces that shape quorumsensing systems and how quorum-sensing behaviors of individual cells translate into the collective properties of bacterial groups (82, 137).”
Microbial Surface Colonization and Biofilm Development in Marine Environments (2015, background): “These siderophore-nonproducing cheaters may gain the benefit of taking up siderophore-bound iron if they can recruit as surface colonizers localized near siderophore-producing microorganisms (35, 668).”
Biofilm Formation in Food Processing Environments is Still Poorly Understood and Controlled (2014, background): “As diffusion is slow compared with cellular metabolism, the chemical environment often differs greatly at different biofilm depths (Stewart 2003; Nadell et al. 2009).”
Microbial interactions within the plant holobiont (2018, positive): “These secretions, which are the result of combined processes from clonal or multispecies microbial consortia [106, 107], provide selective advantage for microbes such as protection from competitors and antimicrobial molecules [108], activation of enzymatic processes that require high cellular densit”
Snowdrift game dynamics and facultative cheating in yeast (2009, positive): “It would be interesting to study the outcome of competition between the cooperator and cheater strains in spatially structured environments9,15,16,23,27–29, particularly given a recent theoretical prediction that spatial structure often inhibits cooperation in a snowdrift game27.”
Quorum Sensing and Bacterial Social Interactions in Biofilms (2012, background): “AHL molecules are known to diffuse freely across the cell membrane, so that they are assumed to have little problem to reach their target receptors via free diffusion in the biofilm matrix [12,13,28].”