Self-Organized Pattern Formation of a Bacteria Colony Modeled by a Reaction Diffusion System and Nucleation Theory

Physical Review Letters

Volumn 90, Issue 25, 2003, Pages 4-

  Wakano, Joe Y ^a   Maenosono, Shinya ^a   Komoto, Atsushi ^a   Eiha, Noriko ^a   Yamaguchi, Yukio ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

SEPHAROSE;

BACILLUS; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; CELL AGGREGATION; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DIFFUSION; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; PHYSIOLOGY;

BACILLUS; CELL AGGREGATION; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DIFFUSION; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; SEPHAROSE;

COMPUTER SIMULATION; DIFFUSION; NUCLEATION; NUTRITION;

REACTION DIFFUSION SYSTEMS;

BACTERIOLOGY;

EID: 0043269805     PISSN: 00319007     EISSN: 10797114     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.90.258102     Document Type: Article

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