Most natural environments harbour a stunningly diverse collection of microbial species. In
these communities, bacteria compete with their neighbours for space and resources …

How bacteria regulate, assemble and rotate flagella to swim in liquid media is reasonably
well understood. Much less is known about how some bacteria use flagella to move over the …

Obesity is associated with low-grade chronic inflammation and intestinal dysbiosis.
Ganoderma lucidum is a medicinal mushroom used in traditional Chinese medicine with …

Over 80% of all chronic bacterial infections in humans are associated with biofilms, which
are surface-associated bacterial communities encased within a secreted exopolysaccharide …

Biofilm formation affects biological nitrogen (N) removal, and a sequencing batch biofilm
reactor (SBBR) was set up to evaluate the changes in N removal and microbial …

Many bacteria swim in liquid or swarm over solid surfaces by synthesizing rotary flagella.
The same bacteria that are motile also commonly form nonmotile multicellular aggregates …

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 …

Biofilms are a predominant form of growth for bacteria in the environment and in the clinic.
Critical for biofilm development are adherence, proliferation, and dispersion phases. Each of …

Microbial adhesion to surfaces and the consequent biofilm formation has been documented
in many different environments. Biofilms constitute a protected mode of growth that allows …

Rhamnolipids are glycolipidic biosurfactants produced by various bacterial species. They
were initially found as exoproducts of the opportunistic pathogen Pseudomonas aeruginosa …