Bacterial rheotaxis

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

Volumn 109, Issue 13, 2012, Pages 4780-4785

  Marcos, ^a,b   Fu, Henry C ^c,d   Powers, Thomas R ^d   Stocker, Roman ^b  

^a NANYANG TECHNOLOGICAL UNIVERSITY   (Singapore)

^b Massachusetts Institute of Technology Cambridge   (United States)

^c University of Nevada   (United States)

^d Brown University   (United States)

Author keywords

Chirality; Directional motion; Low Reynolds number

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BACILLUS SUBTILIS; BACTERIAL CELL; BACTERIAL RHEOTAXIS; CHEMOTAXIS; ENVIRONMENT; FLAGELLUM; HUMAN; HYDRODYNAMICS; LIQUID; MATHEMATICAL MODEL; MICROBIAL ACTIVITY; MICROBIAL MORPHOLOGY; MICROFLUIDIC ANALYSIS; MICROHABITAT; MOVEMENT (PHYSIOLOGY); NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SHEAR FLOW; TORQUE; VELOCITY;

BACILLUS SUBTILIS; CHEMOTAXIS; HUMANS; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; MOVEMENT; RHEOLOGY; STRESS, MECHANICAL;

BACILLUS SUBTILIS; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); INVERTEBRATA;

EID: 84859454691     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: 10916490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1120955109     Document Type: Article

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