Correlated phenotypic transitions to competence in bacterial colonies

Physical Review E - Statistical, Nonlinear, and Soft Matter Physics

Volumn 76, Issue 4, 2007, Pages

  Hecht, Inbal ^a   Ben Jacob, Eshel ^a,b   Levine, Herbert ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b TEL AVIV UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTERIA; CORRELATION METHODS; DNA; MATHEMATICAL MODELS;

PHENOTYPIC TRANSITIONS; QUORUM SENSING;

GENETIC ENGINEERING;

EID: 35248893393     PISSN: 15393755     EISSN: 15502376     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevE.76.040901     Document Type: Article

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