Experimental Investigation on the Formation of Dense-Branching-Morphology-Like Colonies in Bacteria

Journal of the Physical Society of Japan

Volumn 67, Issue 10, 1998, Pages 3630-3636

  Wakita, Jun Ichi ^a   Ràfols, Ismael ^a   Itoh, Hiroto ^a   Matsuyama, Tohey ^b   Matsushita, Mitsugu ^a  

^a CHUO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b NIIGATA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Bacterial colony; Dense branching morphology; Pattern formation

Indexed keywords

EID: 0542393907     PISSN: 00319015     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1143/JPSJ.67.3630     Document Type: Article

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