Chiral self-propulsion of growing bacterial macrofibers on a solid surface

Physical Review Letters

Volumn 84, Issue 7, 2000, Pages 1627-1630

  Mendelson, Neil H ^a   Sarlls, Joelle E ^a   Wolgemuth, Charles W ^a   Goldstein, Raymond E ^a,b  

^a The University of Arizona   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACILLUS SUBTILIS; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; CELL DIVISION; CYTOLOGY; ELASTICITY; FRICTION; GENETICS; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; LOCOMOTION; PHYSIOLOGY; TORQUE; VISCOSITY;

BACILLUS SUBTILIS; CELL DIVISION; ELASTICITY; FRICTION; LOCOMOTION; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; TORQUE; VISCOSITY;

EID: 0034645853     PISSN: 00319007     EISSN: 10797114     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.84.1627     Document Type: Article

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