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26. How microbes
interact
- Communication between microbial cells: signal molecules
and signaling.
- Interactions in biofilms, biofilm structures and
conditions in biofilms.
- Interactions in gradients and transients: motility,
chemotaxis, phototaxis.
- Bacterioplankton diversity on a microscale.
- Environmental influences on structures of microbial
assemblages.
- Types of symbiotic interactions; intimacy (ecto-,
endo); dependence (obligate, facultative); function (protection, syntrophism,
gene exchange); evolution (optimization: rumen, luminescent fish,
Rhizobia in leguminous plant roots, Rubbachia spp. in insects; algae,
cyanobacteria, fungi and bacteria in lichens)
- Trophic interactions in synergistic symbioses.
- Trophic interactions in predation and parasitism.
- Population control by bacteriophages and viruses.
- Phototrophic consortia.
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