External and internal constraints on eukaryotic chemotaxis

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

Volumn 107, Issue 21, 2010, Pages 9656-9659

  Fuller, Danny ^a   Chen, Wen ^b   Adler, Micha ^b   Groisman, Alex ^b   Levine, Herbert ^b   Rappel, Wouter Jan ^b   Loomis, William F ^a  

^a SECTION OF CELL AND DEVELOPMENTAL BIOLOGY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Dictyostelium; Microfluidics; Mutual information; Noise limits

Indexed keywords

CYCLIC AMP;

ARTICLE; CELL MOTILITY; CHEMOTAXIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; DICTYOSTELIUM; INFORMATION PROCESSING; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECEPTOR BINDING;

CHEMOTAXIS; CYCLIC AMP; DICTYOSTELIUM;

DICTYOSTELIUM; EUKARYOTA;

EID: 77953099980     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: 10916490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.0911178107     Document Type: Article

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