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Carsten Matz
Researcher at Max Planck Society
Publications - 24
Citations - 3195
Carsten Matz is an academic researcher from Max Planck Society. The author has contributed to research in topics: Biofilm & Flagellate. The author has an hindex of 19, co-authored 24 publications receiving 2936 citations. Previous affiliations of Carsten Matz include Technical University of Denmark & University of New South Wales.
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Off the hook - how bacteria survive protozoan grazing
TL;DR: It is argued that selective predation has given rise to diverse routes of bacterial defense, including adaptive mechanisms in bacterial biofilms, and has promoted major transitions in bacterial evolution, such as multicellularity and pathogenesis.
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Predation as a shaping force for the phenotypic and genotypic composition of planktonic bacteria
Klaus Jürgens,Carsten Matz +1 more
TL;DR: Current knowledge on bacterial phenotypic properties which affect their vulnerability towards grazers are summarised, and experimental evidence demonstrating that this phenotypesic heterogeneity results in shifts of bacterial community composition during enhanced protist grazing pressure is reviewed.
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Biofilm formation and phenotypic variation enhance predation-driven persistence of Vibrio cholerae
Carsten Matz,Diane McDougald,Ana Maria Moreno,Pui Yi Yung,Fitnat H. Yildiz,Staffan Kjelleberg +5 more
TL;DR: The results provide a mechanistic explanation for the adaptive advantage of surface-associated growth in the environmental persistence of V. cholerae and suggest an important contribution of protozoan predation in the selective enrichment of biofilm-forming strains in the out-of-host environment.
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Impact of Violacein-Producing Bacteria on Survival and Feeding of Bacterivorous Nanoflagellates
Carsten Matz,Peter Deines,Jens Boenigk,Hartmut Arndt,Leo Eberl,Staffan Kjelleberg,Klaus Jürgens +6 more
TL;DR: The results suggest that violacein-producing bacteria possess a highly effective survival mechanism which may exemplify the potential of some bacterial secondary metabolites to undermine protozoan grazing pressure and population dynamics.
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Microcolonies, quorum sensing and cytotoxicity determine the survival of Pseudomonas aeruginosa biofilms exposed to protozoan grazing
TL;DR: Both the formation of microcolonies and the production of toxins are effective mechanisms that may allow P. aeruginosa biofilms to resist protozoan grazing and to persist in the environment.