An easy-to-use simulation program demonstrates variations in bacterial cell cycle parameters depending on medium and temperature

PLoS ONE

Volumn 7, Issue 2, 2012, Pages

  Stokke, Caroline ^a,b   Flåtten, Ingvild ^a   Skarstad, Kirsten ^a  

^a OSLO UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Norway)

^b OSLO UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Norway)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACETIC ACID; BACTERIAL DNA; GLUCOSE;

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL CELL CYCLE; BACTERIAL CHROMOSOME; BACTERIAL GROWTH; BACTERIAL REPRODUCTION; BACTERIUM CULTURE; CELL CYCLE G2 PHASE; CELL CYCLE M PHASE; CELL CYCLE PARAMETERS; CELL CYCLE S PHASE; COMPUTER PROGRAM; COMPUTER SIMULATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; CULTURE MEDIUM; DNA DETERMINATION; ESCHERICHIA COLI; FLOW CYTOMETRY; HISTOGRAM; MATHEMATICAL ANALYSIS; NONHUMAN; TEMPERATURE SENSITIVITY; BACTERIUM; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; CELL CYCLE; CYTOLOGY; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; TEMPERATURE;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); ESCHERICHIA COLI;

BACTERIA; CELL CYCLE; COMPUTER SIMULATION; CULTURE MEDIA; ESCHERICHIA COLI; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; TEMPERATURE;

EID: 84856934216     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0030981     Document Type: Article

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