A process in which planktonically growing microorganisms grow at a liquid-air interface or on a solid substrate under the flow of a liquid and produce extracellular polymers that facilitate matrix formation, resulting in a change in the organisms' growth rate and gene transcription. [ http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/11932229 GOC:di ]
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gocheck_do_not_annotate, goslim_pir, goslim_candida