Generic modelling of cooperative growth patterns in bacterial colonies

Nature

Volumn 368, Issue 6466, 1994, Pages 46-49

  Ben Jacob, Eshel ^a   Schochet, Ofer ^a   Tenenbaum, Adam ^a   Cohen, Inon ^a   Czirók, Andras ^b   Vicsek, Tamas ^b  

^a TEL AVIV UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

^b EÖTVÖS LORÁND UNIVERSITY   (Hungary)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTERIA; COLONIAL ORGANISM; COOPERATIVE GROWTH; GROWTH PATTERN;

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GROWTH; BACTERIUM COLONY; COLONY FORMATION; MICROSCOPY; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; VISUAL DISCRIMINATION;

BACTERIA; BACTERIAL PHYSIOLOGY; CELL DIVISION; CELL MOVEMENT; CHEMOTAXIS; CULTURE MEDIA; DIFFUSION; MATHEMATICS; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; SPORES, BACTERIAL; SUPPORT, NON-U.S. GOV'T;

EID: 0028183962     PISSN: 00280836     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/368046a0     Document Type: Article

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