Statistical image analysis reveals features affecting fates of Myxococcus xanthus developmental aggregates

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

Volumn 108, Issue 14, 2011, Pages 5915-5920

  Xie, Chunyan ^a   Zhang, Haiyang ^a   Shimkets, Lawrence J ^b   Igoshin, Oleg A ^a  

^a Rice University   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GEORGIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Development; Pattern formation

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL GROWTH; CONFERENCE PAPER; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATIONAL STUDY; HIGH THROUGHPUT SCREENING; IMAGE ANALYSIS; MYXOCOCCUS XANTHUS; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; TIME LAPSE IMAGING;

MYXOCOCCUS XANTHUS;

EID: 79955039904     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: 10916490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1018383108     Document Type: Article

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