id author title date pages extension mime words sentence flesch summary cache txt 41687h1659s Morgen Elizabeth Anyan Physical and Environmental Factors Affecting the Swarm Motility of Pseudomonas aeruginosa 2015 .txt text/plain 322 10 23 While previous studies have shown surface-attached bacterial biofilms to be highly resistant to heavy metal toxicity, little is known about the influence of heavy metals upon surface motile bacteria and developing biofilms. Metal resistance was shown to vary with motility mode (swimming vs. swarming), but did not correlate with rhamnolipid production, as was originally hypothesized; while cell products such as rhamnolipid were shown to bind heavy metals (as expected) and should limit metal bioavailability, the results suggest at least one additional mechanism (as yet undetermined) that promotes cell survival during swarming in the presence of these heavy metals. cache/41687h1659s.txt txt/41687h1659s.txt