Division of labor during biofilm matrix production
A. Dragos, H. T. Kiesewalter, M. Martin, C.-Y. Hsu, R. Hartmann, T. Wechsler, C. Eriksen, S. Brix Pedersen, K. Drescher, N. Stanley-Wall, R. Kummerli, A. T. Kovacs
This study shows that genetic division of labor in Bacillus subtilis enhances biofilm productivity by allowing specialized mutants to exchange matrix components, outperforming phenotypic specialization.
bioRxiv · Mar 13, 2018Microbiology