Chemical warfare at small scales: does eukaryotic chemical defense theory fit biofilms?

小规模化学战：真核化学防御理论适合生物膜吗？

• 批准号: DP1096481
• 负责人: Em/Prof Peter Steinberg
• 金额: $ 21.58万
• 依托单位: The University of New South Wales
• 依托单位国家: 澳大利亚
• 项目类别: Discovery Projects
• 财政年份: 2010
• 资助国家: 澳大利亚
• 起止时间: 2010-01-01 至 2012-12-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://dataportal.arc.gov.au/RGS/Web/Grants/DP1096481
• 关键词: Chemical; warfare; small; scales; does

The ecology of bacteria has long been treated separately from the ecology of higher organisms. Thus we do not know whether the ecology of bacteria operates by the same general rules as those of plants and animals. This significantly diminishes our understanding of the natural world, and our capacity to manage our environment. In this project we will systematically test ecological defense theories in bacterial systems. Our aim is to merge our understanding of the ecology of these very different organisms. This integration of plant and animal ecology and environmental microbiology is new for both fields, and thus studies such as this one have the potential to put Australia at the forefront of this exciting new approach to our environment.

长期以来，细菌的生态学一直与高等生物的生态学分开对待。因此，我们不知道细菌的生态是否遵循与植物和动物相同的一般规则。这极大地削弱了我们对自然世界的理解以及我们管理环境的能力。在这个项目中，我们将系统地测试细菌系统中的生态防御理论。我们的目标是融合我们对这些截然不同的生物体的生态学的理解。这种动植物生态学和环境微生物学的整合对于这两个领域来说都是全新的，因此此类研究有可能使澳大利亚处于这一令人兴奋的环境新方法的前沿。