Studies of bacterial branching growth using reaction-diffusion models for colonial development

Physica A: Statistical Mechanics and its Applications

Volumn 260, Issue 3-4, 1998, Pages 510-554

  Golding, Ido ^a   Kozlovsky, Yonathan ^a   Cohen, Inon ^a   Ben Jacob, Eshel ^a  

^a TEL AVIV UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

Author keywords

Bacillus subtilis; Model; Morphology transition; Organization; Reaction diffusion

Indexed keywords

CYBERNETICS; DIFFUSION; MATHEMATICAL MODELS;

COLONIAL DEVELOPMENT; REACTION-DIFFUSION MODELS;

BACTERIA;

EID: 0032207792     PISSN: 03784371     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0378-4371(98)00345-8     Document Type: Article

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