Factors driving intraspecific diversity in mono-species and mixed-species biofilm

Diversity has long been recognized to play an essential role in ensuring the survival of biological communities. In particular for sessile communities such as biofilms, both intraspecific (genotypic) and interspecific (species) diversities can have significant effects on the fitness of the community...

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Main Author: Nai, Jia Wen
Other Authors: Scott Rice
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spelling sg-ntu-dr.10356-706732023-02-28T18:01:06Z Factors driving intraspecific diversity in mono-species and mixed-species biofilm Nai, Jia Wen Scott Rice School of Biological Sciences DRNTU::Science Diversity has long been recognized to play an essential role in ensuring the survival of biological communities. In particular for sessile communities such as biofilms, both intraspecific (genotypic) and interspecific (species) diversities can have significant effects on the fitness of the community under unfavourable conditions such as oxidative stress and starvation. In this project, we explored the effects of nutrients (casamino acids, glucose and fumarate) and quorum sensing (QS) on the interspecific and intraspecific diversities of Pseudomonas protegens mono-species biofilms and Pseudomonas aeruginosa, P. protegens and Klebsiella pneumoniae mixed-species biofilms. Biofilms were cultivated in three-channel flow cells for 6 days and their morphotypic variants were enumerated from days 3 to 6 based on their differences in colony morphologies as compared to the wild type. Our results suggest that casamino acids promote the formation of P. protegens variants in both mono-species and mixed-species biofilms and each of the four P. protegens variants are dominant and have varying finesses in different carbon sources. Our data also demonstrated that las and rhl QS systems do not influence the production of variants. Bachelor of Science in Biological Sciences 2017-05-09T02:49:14Z 2017-05-09T02:49:14Z 2017 Final Year Project (FYP) http://hdl.handle.net/10356/70673 en Nanyang Technological University 34 p. application/pdf
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Factors driving intraspecific diversity in mono-species and mixed-species biofilm
description Diversity has long been recognized to play an essential role in ensuring the survival of biological communities. In particular for sessile communities such as biofilms, both intraspecific (genotypic) and interspecific (species) diversities can have significant effects on the fitness of the community under unfavourable conditions such as oxidative stress and starvation. In this project, we explored the effects of nutrients (casamino acids, glucose and fumarate) and quorum sensing (QS) on the interspecific and intraspecific diversities of Pseudomonas protegens mono-species biofilms and Pseudomonas aeruginosa, P. protegens and Klebsiella pneumoniae mixed-species biofilms. Biofilms were cultivated in three-channel flow cells for 6 days and their morphotypic variants were enumerated from days 3 to 6 based on their differences in colony morphologies as compared to the wild type. Our results suggest that casamino acids promote the formation of P. protegens variants in both mono-species and mixed-species biofilms and each of the four P. protegens variants are dominant and have varying finesses in different carbon sources. Our data also demonstrated that las and rhl QS systems do not influence the production of variants.
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Nai, Jia Wen
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author Nai, Jia Wen
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title Factors driving intraspecific diversity in mono-species and mixed-species biofilm
title_short Factors driving intraspecific diversity in mono-species and mixed-species biofilm
title_full Factors driving intraspecific diversity in mono-species and mixed-species biofilm
title_fullStr Factors driving intraspecific diversity in mono-species and mixed-species biofilm
title_full_unstemmed Factors driving intraspecific diversity in mono-species and mixed-species biofilm
title_sort factors driving intraspecific diversity in mono-species and mixed-species biofilm
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