Bacterial social interactions and the emergence of community-intrinsic properties

Jonas Stenløkke Madsen; Søren Johannes Sørensen; Mette Burmølle

doi:10.1016/j.mib.2017.11.018

Bacterial social interactions and the emergence of community-intrinsic properties

Jonas Stenløkke Madsen, Søren Johannes Sørensen, Mette Burmølle

Microbiology

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Abstract

Bacterial communities are dominated and shaped by social interactions, which facilitate the emergence of properties observed only in the community setting. Such community-intrinsic properties impact not only the phenotypes of cells in a community, but also community composition and function, and are thus likely to affect a potential host. Studying community-intrinsic properties is, therefore, important for furthering our understanding of clinical, applied and environmental microbiology. Here, we provide recent examples of research investigating community-intrinsic properties, focusing mainly on community composition and interactions in multispecies biofilms. We hereby wish to emphasize the importance of studying social interactions in settings where community-intrinsic properties are likely to emerge.

Original language	English
Journal	Current Opinion in Microbiology
Volume	42
Pages (from-to)	104-109
Number of pages	6
ISSN	1369-5274
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1016/j.mib.2017.11.018
Publication status	Published - Apr 2018

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