Biofilms formed by the archaeon Haloferax volcaniiexhibit cellular differentiation and social motility, and facilitate horizontal gene transfer

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What do we know? That biofilm/population organization might be important and it's not transformation (eDNA does not play a role), showed by @socialmicrobes : https://t.co/JFDvsAW0gB (3/8)

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@Alex___Bisson @hsrschiller @pohlschr @theopi Congrats on this preprint! When I began work on Haloferax “liquid biofilms” for our 2014 @bmcbiology paper (we used the term static-liquid biofilms), we observed these rapid morphological changes. This study ex

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RT @iamscicomm: Before joining the Kolter Lab, I finished a PhD in genetics @UConn in 2015 studying salt-loving archaea #haloarchaea https:…

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RT @iamscicomm: Before joining the Kolter Lab, I finished a PhD in genetics @UConn in 2015 studying salt-loving archaea #haloarchaea https:…

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