Microbial Biofilms: from Ecology to Molecular Genetics

By M. E. Davey, G. O’Toole. Microbiology and Molecular Biology Reviews, 2000

3,129 citations recorded by the source corpus.

Subfields: Ecology, Health, Toxicology and Mutagenesis, Molecular Biology

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In Ecology

1. I. Jahid
2. S. Ha
3. K. Young
4. R. Aminov
5. G. O’Toole
6. Robert Kolter
7. M. E. Davey
8. Brian K. Hammer

In Health, Toxicology and Mutagenesis

1. S. Ha
2. I. Jahid
3. R. Aminov
4. K. Young
5. G. O’Toole
6. C. R. Lovell
7. Mary V. Graham
8. Nathaniel C. Cady

In Molecular Biology

1. S. Ha
2. I. Jahid
3. K. Young
4. A. Horswill
5. G. O’Toole
6. D. K. Maheshwari
7. Brian K. Hammer
8. B. Bassler

Citations in the corpus

• Earthworm invasions of ecosystems devoid of earthworms: effects on soil microbes (2006, background): “As biofilms protect bacteria from antibiotics and environmental stresses (Davey and O’Toole 2000), these microaggregates may protect the bacteria from digestive enzymes and abrasion.”
• The Selective Value of Bacterial Shape (2006, background): “These and other topics can be accessed through recent reviews (48, 165, 243, 330, 354).”
• A genetic basis for Pseudomonas aeruginosa biofilm antibiotic resistance (2003, background): “gif" NDATA ITEM> ]> Biofilms are surface-attached microbial communities with characteristic architecture and phenotypic and biochemical properties distinct from their free-swimming, planktonic counterpart”
• Application of Quorum Quenching to Inhibit Biofilm Formation (2009, neutral): “Also, it has been suggested that single-species biofilms formed under laboratory conditions exhibits similar overall structural features to those of naturally grown mixed-species biofilms (Davey and O’Toole, 2000).”