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Growth of colony biofilms under aerobic conditions (solid circles), anaerobic conditions (empty circles), and anaerobic conditions with nitrate (gray circles). All colony biofilms were grown under aerobic conditions for the first 4 h and were then transferred to alternative conditions at that time, indicated on the graph by the dashed vertical line. The error bars represent the standard error of the mean for each value.
