Deadly competition between sibling bacterial colonies

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

Volumn 106, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 428-433

  Be'er, Avraham ^a   Zhang, H P ^a   Florin, E L ^a   Payne, Shelley M ^a   Ben Jacob, Eshel ^b   Swinney, Harry L ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN   (United States)

^b TEL AVIV UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

Author keywords

Bacterial competition; Bacterial growth; Growth inhibition; Paenibacillus dendritiformis

Indexed keywords

AGAR; BACTERIOCIN;

AGAR MEDIUM; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL COLONIZATION; BACTERIAL GROWTH; BACTERIAL STRAIN; BACTERIUM COLONY; CELL DEATH; GROWTH INHIBITION; INOCULATION; INTERSPECIFIC COMPETITION; LETHALITY; MATHEMATICAL MODEL; NONHUMAN; NUTRIENT; NUTRIENT CONTENT; PAENIBACILLUS; PAENIBACILLUS DENTRITIFORMIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SECRETION; SIBLING; SIMULATION;

AGAR; ANTI-BACTERIAL AGENTS; BACTERIA; BACTERIAL PHYSIOLOGICAL PHENOMENA; BACTERIOCINS; CELL COMMUNICATION; FOOD; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); PAENIBACILLUS DENDRITIFORMIS;

EID: 58849151736     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: 10916490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.0811816106     Document Type: Article

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