Motility, mixing, and multicellularity

Genetic Programming and Evolvable Machines

Volumn 8, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 115-129

  Solari, Cristian A ^a   Kessler, John O ^a   Goldstein, Raymond E ^b  

^a The University of Arizona   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Chemotaxis; Mixing; Motility; Multicellularity

Indexed keywords

CHEMOTAXIS; MOTILITY; MULTICELLULARITY;

BUOYANCY; CELLS; DIFFUSION; METABOLISM; NUTRIENTS;

MICROBIOLOGY;

EID: 34250196144     PISSN: 13892576     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10710-007-9029-7     Document Type: Article

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