A Spatiotemporal View of Plasmid Loss in Biofilms and Planktonic Cultures

Madsen JS; Burmolle M; Sorensen SJ

Biotechnology and Bioengineering, Vol.110, No.12, 3071-3074, 2013

This Commentary by Madsen, BurmOlle, and SOrensen discusses the article Non-invasive in situ monitoring and quantification of TOL plasmid segregational loss within Pseudomonas putida biofilms by Ma, Katzenmeyer, and Bryers. (2013. Biotechnol Bioeng. 110(11):2949-2958. DOI: ). Biotechnol. Bioeng. 2013;110: 3071-3074. (c) 2013 Wiley Periodicals, Inc.

Keywords:biofilm;plasmid loss;horizontal gene transfer;spatiotemporal patterns;plasmid stability