Self-organization in bacterial swarming: Lessons from myxobacteria

Physical Biology

Volumn 8, Issue 5, 2011, Pages

  Wu, Yilin ^a,b,e   Jiang, Yi ^a,c   Kaiser, A Dale ^d   Alber, Mark ^b  

^a LOS ALAMOS NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NOTRE DAME   (United States)

^c EMORY UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^e HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); MYXOCOCCALES;

BIOFILM; CYTOLOGY; MOVEMENT (PHYSIOLOGY); MYXOCOCCALES; PHYSIOLOGY; REVIEW;

BIOFILMS; MOVEMENT; MYXOCOCCALES;

EID: 80052680647     PISSN: 14783967     EISSN: 14783975     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/1478-3975/8/5/055003     Document Type: Article

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