Biotic and abiotic surfaces in marine waters are rapidly colonized by microorganisms.
Surface colonization and subsequent biofilm formation and development provide numerous …

Bacterial responses to antibiotics are concentration-dependent. At high concentrations,
antibiotics exhibit antimicrobial activities on susceptible cells, while subinhibitory …

Despite their importance for humans, there is little consensus on the function of antibiotics in
nature for the bacteria that produce them. Classical explanations suggest that bacteria use …

Unlocking the rich harvest of marine microbial ecosystems has the potential to both
safeguard the existence of our species for the future, while also presenting significant …

Many environmental and interactive important traits of bacteria, such as antibiotic,
siderophore or exoenzyme (like cellulose, pectinase) production, virulence factors of …

Bacterial quorum sensing (QS) refers to the process of cell-to-cell bacterial communication
enabled through the production and sensing of the local concentration of small molecules …

Microbial consortia are capable of surviving diverse conditions through the formation of
synergistic population‐level structures, such as stromatolites, microbial mats and biofilms …

Microbial pathogenesis research has, historically, focused on the study of infections as
monomicrobial events. However, the advent of next generation sequencing and culture …

The LuxS enzyme, an S-ribosyl-homocysteine lyase, catalyzes the production of the signal
precursor for autoinducer-2 mediated quorum sensing (QS-2) in Vibrio. Its widespread …

Microbes are intensely social organisms that routinely cooperate and coordinate their
activities to express elaborate population level phenotypes. Such coordination requires a …