Bursts of sectors in expanding bacterial colonies as a possible model for tumor growth and metastases

Physica A: Statistical Mechanics and its Applications

Volumn 320, Issue , 2003, Pages 485-496

  Ron, Ilan G ^a   Golding, Ido ^a,b   Lifsitz Mercer, Beatrice ^a   Ben Jacob, Eshel ^a  

^a TEL AVIV UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

^b PRINCETON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Colonial sectors; Expanding bacterial colonies; Tumor growth

Indexed keywords

CARCINOGENS; DNA; GENES; SEGREGATION (METALLOGRAPHY); TUMORS;

BACTERIAL COLONIES;

STATISTICAL MECHANICS;

EID: 0037445445     PISSN: 03784371     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0378-4371(02)01547-9     Document Type: Article

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