Study of elastic collisions of Myxococcus xanthus in swarms

Physical Biology

Volumn 8, Issue 2, 2011, Pages

  Harvey, Cameron W ^a   Morcos, Faruck ^b   Sweet, Christopher R ^a   Kaiser, Dale ^c   Chatterjee, Santanu ^b   Liu, Xiaomin ^b   Chen, Danny Z ^b   Alber, Mark ^a,d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NOTRE DAME   (United States)

^b University of Notre Dame   (United States)

^c STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d INDIANA UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MYXOCOCCALES; MYXOCOCCUS XANTHUS;

ARTICLE; BACTERIUM ADHERENCE; COMPUTER SIMULATION; CYTOLOGY; ELASTICITY; MOTION; MOVEMENT (PHYSIOLOGY); MYXOCOCCUS XANTHUS;

BACTERIAL ADHESION; COMPUTER SIMULATION; ELASTICITY; MOTION; MOVEMENT; MYXOCOCCUS XANTHUS;

EID: 79954467419     PISSN: 14783967     EISSN: 14783975     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/1478-3975/8/2/026016     Document Type: Article

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