Towards a quantitative view of the global ubiquity of biofilms

Yinon M. Bar-On; Ron Milo

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Towards a quantitative view of the global ubiquity of biofilms

Yinon M. Bar-On, Ron Milo^*

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Department of Plant and Environmental Sciences

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Abstract

Biofilms are a fundamental form of microbial life and occur in diverse environments, ranging from the mammalian gut to deep subsurface rocks. It is often claimed that most bacteria and archaea live in biofilms, but this claim awaits quantification. Recent updates on global microbial cell numbers prompt a revisiting of this question.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	199-200
Number of pages	2
Journal	Nature Reviews Microbiology
Volume	17
Issue number	4
Early online date	21 Feb 2019
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1038/s41579-019-0162-0
Publication status	Published - Apr 2019

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The authors thank P. Crockford, A. Fromm, I. K. Gal and M. Shamir for useful feedback on this contribution.

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Microbiology
General Immunology and Microbiology
Infectious Diseases

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