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The Structure and Function of Microbial Communities

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The Prokaryotes

Introduction

For the greater part of its history, microbiology has been a science of the single cell. The cell has dominated thought and experiment. So much so that discussion of other forms of organization, if addressed at all, was most often the subject of hallway speculation rather than a serious question of investigation. It is heartening that within the last decade or so the science of microbiology has begun to address the dimensions of organization that transcend the single cell. For example, the study of biofilms as organized systems is now more acceptable, and several high profile publications have emerged that examine the physiological basis of structure and function at a multicellular level of monospecific biofilm communities (Fuqua et al., 1994; Fuqua et al., 1996; Hastings and Greenberg, 1999; Whiteley et al., 2001). Although there remains an essential reductionism to these studies, they have demonstrated the importance of intrapopulation, and possibly interpopulation,...

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Stahl, D.A., Hullar, M., Davidson, S. (2006). The Structure and Function of Microbial Communities. In: Dworkin, M., Falkow, S., Rosenberg, E., Schleifer, KH., Stackebrandt, E. (eds) The Prokaryotes. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/0-387-30741-9_13

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