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Oct 11, 2022

Defenders of the Prokaryotic Empire!

When considering what has first priority for Earth/Sea defenders and conservers, ask yourself: Of all that biomass that we  respire along with, what bits  or broad expanses of it  are most At Risk? What  is Wildest? Or Eldest. Rarest.  Keystonedest?  All of the above?


My pick: Wild bacteria are at risk,  things are getting worse,  and we megafauna die without them.

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 specifically their abilities to  create and biochemcally respond to   

Wild Biofilms are natural  structures built by bacteria, inhabited by other microbes from diatoms to amoebas. By collectively releasing multiple signal molecules, they become landing strips for all the planktonic larvae of mussels,  that settle   They make life possible for we of that  junior life branch: the Eukaryotes.

Read about 
(1) the importance of wild biofilms.
(2) Climate Change's impacts to biofilms
(3) Impacts of antibiofilm strategies in medicine, public health, fishing & agriculture.




Biofilms: The Microbial “Protective Clothing” in Extreme Environments

WILD BIOFILMS &THEIR IMPORTANCE

We Are One: multispecies metabolism & strategies of a Biofilm Jan 2021

Love at First Taste: Induction of Larval Settlement by Marine Microbes Feb 2020

Second skin: ecological role of epibiotic biofilms on marine organisms August 2012

Significance of biofilms to human, animal, plant and ecosystem health Oct 2021



CLIMATE IMPACTS ON MICROBIAL BIOFILMING SUCCESS

Thermal Acclimation and Adaptation in Marine Protozooplankton and Mixoplankton



THREATS TO  BIOFILMS

Quorum disrupting pollutants 2015 

Quorum quenching: its role in nature and applied developments



RESPONSE TO  BIOFILM THREATS 

Trans-kingdom interactions in mixed biofilm communities May 2022


12/16/22

The role of containerships as transfer mechanisms of marine biofouling species 2009


Fouling in your own nest:  vessel noise increases biofouling 2014







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Biofouling    2022 Oct;3 8(9):940-951. 2022 Dec 13.

Published: 11 August 2016
Biofilms: an emergent form of bacterial life






























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