Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Contributors
- Editors' Preface
- An overview of biofilms as functional communities
- Initial microbial adhesion events: mechanisms and implications
- Physiological events in biofilm formation
- Environmental and genetic factors influencing biofilm structure
- Coaggregation and coadhesion in oral biofilms
- Cohesiveness in biofilm matrix polymers
- Microbial detachment from biofilms
- Modelling and predicting biofilm structure
- Microbial community interactions in biofilms
- Microbial communities: aggregates of individuals or co-ordinated systems
- Gene transfer in biofilms
- Population dynamics in microbial biofilms
- Biodegradation by biofilm communities
- Biofilms and prosthetic devices
- Biofilms: problems of control
- Biofilms in the New Millennium: musings from a peak in Xanadu
- Index
Frontmatter
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 03 June 2010
Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Contributors
- Editors' Preface
- An overview of biofilms as functional communities
- Initial microbial adhesion events: mechanisms and implications
- Physiological events in biofilm formation
- Environmental and genetic factors influencing biofilm structure
- Coaggregation and coadhesion in oral biofilms
- Cohesiveness in biofilm matrix polymers
- Microbial detachment from biofilms
- Modelling and predicting biofilm structure
- Microbial community interactions in biofilms
- Microbial communities: aggregates of individuals or co-ordinated systems
- Gene transfer in biofilms
- Population dynamics in microbial biofilms
- Biodegradation by biofilm communities
- Biofilms and prosthetic devices
- Biofilms: problems of control
- Biofilms in the New Millennium: musings from a peak in Xanadu
- Index
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- Community Structure and Co-operation in Biofilms , pp. i - ivPublisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2000