Enterococci are ubiquitous members of the human gut microbiota and frequent causes of
biofilm-associated opportunistic infections. Enterococci cause 25% of all catheter-associated …

The role of bacterial surface components in combination with bacterial functional signals in
the process of biofilm formation has been increasingly studied in recent years. Plants …

Like all sessile organisms, surface-attached communities of bacteria known as biofilms must
release and disperse cells into the environment to colonize new sites. For many pathogenic …

For the past ten years, the developmental model of microbial biofilm formation has served as
the major conceptual framework for biofilm research; however, the paradigmatic value of this …

Bacterial resistance is an emergency public health problem worldwide, compounded by the
ability of bacteria to form biofilms, mainly in seriously ill hospitalized patients. The World …

Biofilms, in which cells attach to surfaces and secrete slime (polymeric substances), are
central to microbial life. Biofilms are often thought to require high levels of cooperation …

When grown as a biofilm in laboratory flow chambers Pseudomonas aeruginosa can
develop mushroom‐shaped multicellular structures consisting of distinct subpopulations in …

Quorum sensing faces evolutionary problems from non-producing or over-producing
cheaters. Such problems are circumvented in diffusion sensing, an alternative explanation …

One of the most remarkable features of the evolutionary process is its capacity to construct.
In billions of years a primordial soup of organic compounds evolved to the theater of life …

During the transition from post-exponential to stationary phase, Escherichia coli changes
from the motile-planktonic to the adhesive-sedentary “lifestyle.” We demonstrate this …