Universality in Bacterial Colonies

Journal of Statistical Physics

Volumn 144, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 303-315

  Bonachela, Juan A ^a   Nadell, Carey D ^a   Xavier, João B ^b   Levin, Simon A ^a  

^a PRINCETON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b MEMORIAL SLOAN KETTERING CANCER CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Computational biology; Interfaces in random media (Theory); Self affine roughness (Theory)

Indexed keywords

EID: 79961007753     PISSN: 00224715     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10955-011-0179-x     Document Type: Article

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