Periodic phenomena in Proteus mirabilis swarm colony development

Journal of Bacteriology

Volumn 178, Issue 22, 1996, Pages 6525-6538

  Rauprich, Oliver ^a,b   Matsushita, Mitsugu ^a,c   Weijer, Cornelis J ^b,e   Siegert, Florian ^b   Esipov, Sergei E ^d   Shapiro, James A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

^c CHUO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^d UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO   (United States)

^e UNIVERSITY OF DUNDEE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGAR;

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GROWTH; BACTERIUM COLONY; CELL DENSITY; CULTURE MEDIUM; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEUS MIRABILIS;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); MIRABILIS; PROTEUS MIRABILIS;

EID: 0029946461     PISSN: 00219193     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/jb.178.22.6525-6538.1996     Document Type: Article

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