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Applied and Environmental Microbiology, December 2005, p. 8987-8990, Vol. 71, No. 12
0099-2240/05/$08.00+0     doi:10.1128/AEM.71.12.8987-8990.2005
Copyright © 2005, American Society for Microbiology. All Rights Reserved.

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Cell-Cell Influences on Bacterial Community Development in Aquatic Biofilms{dagger}

Robert J. C. McLean,1* Mary B. Barnes,2 M. Katy Windham,3 Mubina Merchant,1,{ddagger} Michael R. J. Forstner,1 and Clay Fuqua4

Department of Biology, Texas State University—San Marcos, 601 University Drive, San Marcos, Texas,1 Tulane National Primate Research Center, 18703 Three Rivers Road, Covington, Louisiana,2 BRB Lab C6, University of Texas Health Center at Tyler, 11937 US Highway 271, Tyler, Texas,3 Department of Biology, Indiana University, Jordan Hall, 1001 East 3rd St., Bloomington, Indiana4

Received 1 October 2004/ Accepted 17 August 2005

Dialysis tubing containing spent culture media, when placed in a lake, was colonized by a low diversity of bacteria, whereas abiotic controls had considerable diversity. Changes were seen in the presence and absence of acylated homoserine lactones, suggesting that these molecules and other factors may influence adherent-population composition.

* Corresponding author. Mailing address: Department of Biology, Texas State University—San Marcos, 601 University Drive, San Marcos, TX 78666. Phone: (512) 245-3365. Fax: (512) 245-8713. E-mail: McLean{at}txstate.edu.

{dagger} Supplemental material for this article may be found at http://aem.asm.org.

{ddagger} Present address: QIAGEN Inc., 27220 Turnberry Lane, Suite 200, Valencia, CA 19355.

Applied and Environmental Microbiology, December 2005, p. 8987-8990, Vol. 71, No. 12
0099-2240/05/$08.00+0     doi:10.1128/AEM.71.12.8987-8990.2005
Copyright © 2005, American Society for Microbiology. All Rights Reserved.



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