Self-organized and highly ordered domain structures within swarms of Myxococcus xanthus

Cell Motility and the Cytoskeleton

Volumn 63, Issue 3, 2006, Pages 141-148

  Pelling, Andrew E ^a,b   Li, Yinuo ^c   Cross, Sarah E ^a   Castaneda, Schryl ^c   Shi, Wenyuan ^c   Gimzewski, James K ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^c UCLA SCHOOL OF DENTISTRY   (United States)

Author keywords

Angular domain mapping; Atomic force microscopy; Bacteria; Self organization; Swarm

Indexed keywords

GLASS;

ARTICLE; ATOMIC FORCE MICROSCOPY; CELL MOTILITY; IN VIVO STUDY; LIQUID CRYSTAL; MUTATION; MYXOCOCCUS XANTHUS; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR; THERMODYNAMICS; WILD TYPE;

MICROSCOPY, ATOMIC FORCE; MICROSCOPY, VIDEO; MYXOCOCCUS XANTHUS; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR; TIME FACTORS;

MYXOCOCCUS XANTHUS;

EID: 33644870312     PISSN: 08861544     EISSN: 10970169     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/cm.20112     Document Type: Article

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