https://doi.org/10.4081/jbr.2000.10792
ADHESION OF BACTERIA AND DIATOMS TO THE EXOSKELETON OF THE HARPACTICOID COPEPOD Tigriopus fulvus IN CULTURE: ELECTRON AND EPIFLUORESCENT MICROSCOPE STUDY
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Published: 30 June 2000
In marine environments microrganisms can survive as free forms or bound to animate and inanimate surfaces (1,2). The microbial colonization of an organic substratum is a very complex phenomenon; the initial event in biofilm formation is the collision (random collision or chemotaxis) between microrganisms and surface. This is followed by the adhesion of picoplankton to the organic substratum (3). [...]
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