Defined spatial structure stabilizes a synthetic multispecies bacterial community

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

Volumn 105, Issue 47, 2008, Pages 18188-18193

  Hyun, Jung Kim ^a   Boedicker, James Q ^a   Jang, Wook Choi ^a   Ismagilov, Rustem F ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO   (United States)

Author keywords

Microbial; Microfluidic; Microscale; Model; Stability

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; MATHEMATICAL MODEL; MICROBIAL COMMUNITY; MICROFLUIDIC ANALYSIS; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SOIL MICROFLORA;

BACTERIA; CULTURE MEDIA; MICROFLUIDICS; NITROGEN FIXATION; SOIL MICROBIOLOGY; SPECIES SPECIFICITY;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS);

EID: 57449090900     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: 10916490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.0807935105     Document Type: Article

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