The Biofilm Life Cycle Bacterial communities form when free swimming bacteria ... Like sterile worker insects, antibiotic producers are unlikely to reproduce, yet the whole colony benefits from their ...

Bacterial differentiation is a really important biological ... which Schwartzman says was likely a way of stockpiling carbon that the colony could use as it grew. The researchers also wanted to ...

Characteristics of a colony such as shape, edge, elevation, color and texture. When recording colony morphology, it is important to also record color, optical properties (translucence, sheen) and ...

Bacterial cells often exist in dense clusters, making cell detection a challenging feat. Colony counting is a highly variable and unreliable counting method, as it is only an estimate of the ...