Molecular characterization of host-specific biofilm formation in a vertebrate gut symbiont.

Although vertebrates harbor bacterial communities in their gastrointestinal tract whose composition is host-specific, little is known about the mechanisms by which bacterial lineages become selected. The goal of this study was to characterize the ecological processes that mediate host-specificity of...

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Main Authors: Steven A Frese, Donald A Mackenzie, Daniel A Peterson, Robert Schmaltz, Teresa Fangman, You Zhou, Chaomei Zhang, Andrew K Benson, Liz A Cody, Francis Mulholland, Nathalie Juge, Jens Walter
Format: article
Language:EN
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2013
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Online Access:https://doaj.org/article/94982837938948ce907095a9337701b8
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