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SUBMITTER: Matz C
PROVIDER: S-EPMC2444038 | biostudies-literature | 2008
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Matz Carsten C Webb Jeremy S JS Schupp Peter J PJ Phang Shui Yen SY Penesyan Anahit A Egan Suhelen S Steinberg Peter P Kjelleberg Staffan S
PloS one 20080723 7
Many plants and animals are defended from predation or herbivory by inhibitory secondary metabolites, which in the marine environment are very common among sessile organisms. Among bacteria, where there is the greatest metabolic potential, little is known about chemical defenses against bacterivorous consumers. An emerging hypothesis is that sessile bacterial communities organized as biofilms serve as bacterial refuge from predation. By testing growth and survival of two common bacterivorous nan ...[more]