Cooperative organization of bacterial colonies: From genotype to morphotype

Annual Review of Microbiology

Volumn 52, Issue , 1998, Pages 779-806

  Ben Jacob, Eshel ^a   Cohen, Inon ^a   Gutnick, David L ^a  

^a TEL AVIV UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

Author keywords

Bacterial motility; Cell cell communication; Chemotaxis; Colonial development; Pattern formation

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL COLONIZATION; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CELL INTERACTION; CHIRALITY; COLONY FORMATION; EMBRYO DEVELOPMENT; GENETIC ORGANIZATION; GENOTYPE; MYXOCOCCALES; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; SURFACE TENSION;

BACTERIA; CHEMOTAXIS; COLONY COUNT, MICROBIAL; CULTURE MEDIA; ESCHERICHIA COLI; MORPHOGENESIS; MYXOCOCCUS XANTHUS; SALMONELLA TYPHIMURIUM;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); MYXOCOCCALES;

EID: 0031726425     PISSN: 00664227     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1146/annurev.micro.52.1.779     Document Type: Review

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