A simple model for the early events of quorum sensing in Pseudomonas aeruginosa: Modeling bacterial swarming as the movement of an "activation zone"

Biology Direct

Volumn 4, Issue , 2009, Pages

  Netotea, Sergiu ^a   Bertani, Iris ^b   Steindler, Laura ^b   Kerényi, Ádám ^a   Venturi, Vittorio ^b   Pongor, Sándor ^b  

^a INSTITUTE OF EXPERIMENTAL MEDICINE   (Hungary)

^b INTERNATIONAL CENTRE FOR GENETIC ENGINEERING AND BIOTECHNOLOGY   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); PSEUDOMONAS AERUGINOSA;

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL COUNT; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; COMPUTER SIMULATION; CYTOLOGY; GENETICS; GENOTYPE; KINETICS; MUTATION; PHENOTYPE; PHYSIOLOGY; PSEUDOMONAS AERUGINOSA; QUORUM SENSING;

ALGORITHMS; COLONY COUNT, MICROBIAL; COMPUTER SIMULATION; GENOTYPE; KINETICS; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; MUTATION; PHENOTYPE; PSEUDOMONAS AERUGINOSA; QUORUM SENSING;

EID: 63549093480     PISSN: None     EISSN: 17456150     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1745-6150-4-6     Document Type: Article

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