Collective swimming and the dynamics of bacterial turbulence

Biophysical Journal

Volumn 95, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 1564-1574

  Wolgemuth, Charles W ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CONNECTICUT HEALTH CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BACILLUS SUBTILIS; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; COMPUTER SIMULATION; CYTOLOGY; MOVEMENT (PHYSIOLOGY); PHYSIOLOGY; SWIMMING;

BACILLUS SUBTILIS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; MOVEMENT; SWIMMING;

EID: 50349092463     PISSN: 00063495     EISSN: 15420086     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1529/biophysj.107.118257     Document Type: Article

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