title: Microbial ecology comes of age and joins the general ecology community.
authors.affiliation: School of Dentistry, University of Southern California, 925 West 34th Street, Los Angeles, CA 90089, USA. costerto@usc.edu
authors.forename: Bill
authors.initials: B
authors.lastname: Costerton
mesh_terms: D018441:Biofilms / Q000254:growth & development*; D004463:Ecology / Q000379:methods*; D017753:Ecosystem; D008829:Microbiology / Q000639:trends*