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The usage of the term "biofilm" has been used to describe the layer of film that covers sherry known as "Flor" <ref>[http://aem.asm.org/content/76/12/4089.full Ethanol-Independent Biofilm Formation by a Flor Wine Yeast Strain of Saccharomyces cerevisiae. Severino Zara, Michael K. Gross, Giacomo Zara, Marilena Budroni and Alan T. Bakalinsky. 2010.]</ref><ref>[http://femsle.oxfordjournals.org/content/femsle/237/2/425.full.pdf FLO11 is essential for flor formation caused by the C-terminal deletion of NRG1 in Saccharomyces cerevisiae. Mari Ishigami, Youji Nakagawa, Masayuki Hayakawa, Yuzuru Iimura. 2004.]</ref>. The word "pellicle" generally isn't used, although it has appeared on occasion when referring to sherry flor in the 1960's <ref>[http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/5311988 On the pellicle formation by “flor” yeasts. Cantarelli C, Martini A. Antonie Van Leeuwenhoek. 1969.]</ref>. More recently, there have been studies that define a "pellicle" like we see in fermentation as a type of biofilm that forms on the air-liquid interface of a liquid (see references) <ref name="Armitano"></ref><ref>[http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/26122431 Motility, Chemotaxis and Aerotaxis Contribute to Competitiveness during Bacterial Pellicle Biofilm Development. Hölscher T, Bartels B, Lin YC, Gallegos-Monterrosa R, Price-Whelan A, Kolter R, Dietrich LE, Kovács ÁT. J Mol Biol. 2015 Jun 26.]</ref><ref>[http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/24035282 Modulation of curli assembly and pellicle biofilm formation by chemical and protein chaperones. Andersson EK, Bengtsson C, Evans ML, Chorell E, Sellstedt M, Lindgren AE, Hufnagel DA, Bhattacharya M, Tessier PM, Wittung-Stafshede P, Almqvist F, Chapman MR. Chem Biol. 2013 Oct 24.]</ref><ref>[http://www.horadent.com/uploads/media/2005_Branda.pdf Biofilms: the matrix revisited. Steven S. Branda, Ashild Vik, Lisa Friedman and Roberto Kolter. Jan 2005.]</ref><ref>[http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1046/j.1365-2958.2003.03877.x/full Genes involved in matrix formation in Pseudomonas aeruginosa PA14 biofilms. Lisa Friedman andRoberto Kolter. Dec 2003.]</ref>. However, according to Dr. Bryan Heit, the use (or misuse) of the term "biofilm" in these few studies does not warrant a change in the already established definition of the scientific term "biofilm" <ref name="Bryan"></ref>.
The importance of understanding this terminology becomes apparent when trying to research the topic of pellicles in beer. Currently they have not been studied much at all, whereas pellicles of dentistry and microbiology have been studied in depth, as well as biofilms. Thus, brewers should take care when researching reading scientific publications.
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