Modelling and numerical analysis of the colony formation of bacteria

Journal of the Physical Society of Japan

Volumn 72, Issue 4, 2003, Pages 970-971

  Kobayashi, Naoki ^a   Sato, Takuya ^a   Yamazaki, Yoshihiro ^a   Matsushita, Mitsugu ^a  

^a CHUO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Bacterial colonies; Pattern formation; Reaction diffusion model

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BACILLUS SUBTILIS; BACTERIAL COLONIZATION; BACTERIAL GROWTH; CONCENTRATION (PARAMETERS); DIFFUSION; MATHEMATICAL ANALYSIS; MODEL; NONHUMAN; NUTRIENT;

EID: 0038323299     PISSN: 00319015     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1143/JPSJ.72.970     Document Type: Article

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