A microfluidic chemotaxis assay to study microbial behavior in diffusing nutrient patches

Limnology and Oceanography: Methods

Volumn 6, Issue 9, 2008, Pages 477-488

  Seymour, J R ^a   Ahmed, T ^a   Marcos, ^a   Stocker, R ^a  

^a Massachusetts Institute of Technology Cambridge   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); MASTIGOPHORA (FLAGELLATES);

EID: 55149109192     PISSN: None     EISSN: 15415856     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.4319/lom.2008.6.477     Document Type: Article

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