Marine biofilms on artificial surfaces: structure and dynamics
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...Recently, T6SSs have also been identified in some bacterial strains, genomes, and marine metagenomes of Bacteroidetes (733–736), an important group of secondary surface colonizers in marine environments (13, 17, 108, 130, 272, 574)....
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...Microbial surface colonization and surface-associated metabolic activities also exert macroscale deleterious effects, including biofouling (13, 56), biocorrosion (18, 55, 69), and the persistence and transmission of harmful or pathogenic microorganisms and virulence determinants (23, 33, 70)....
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..., the MRC), the Alteromonadaceae and Vibrionaceae groups of the Gammaproteobacteria, and Bacteroidetes (mainly the Flavobacteria group) are frequently surface associated (13, 272)....
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...Marine surface-associated communities are composed of diverse microbial species (17, 108, 151, 153, 574, 611, 612), which usually form biofilms with specific structures and functions (13)....
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...Surfaces submerged in marine water are rapidly colonized by microorganisms (13)....
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...Numerous studies have found community structure to differ more between sites than between different substrates [36, 79, 101], supporting our conclusion that location is the greatest driver of community composition....
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...The abundance ratio between these organisms can vary; the cell ratio of bacteria/diatoms/flagellates on polymer plates from theWhite Sea was 640:4:1, whereas the proportion of other organisms was about 0.15% (Salta et al. 2013)....
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...These findings were based on culture-dependent methods that may not allow relevant conclusions on bacterial taxa dominance and diversity as it is estimated that less than 1 % of the bacterial species, in any ecosystem, are culturable (Amann et al., 1995)....
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...Bacteria in biofilms are well known to exhibit enhanced resistance against antibiotics and many other types of stress compared with their planktonic forms (e.g. Costerton et al., 1999; Hall-Stoodley et al., 2004)....
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...The moment a clean surface is submerged in the sea, biofilm-forming micro-organisms will rapidly colonize it and subsequently form highly complex, dynamic three-dimensional (3D) surface structures (Davey and O’Toole, 2000; Huggett et al., 2009; Molino et al., 2009a)....
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