Water reservoir maintained by cell growth fuels the spreading of a bacterial swarm

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

Volumn 109, Issue 11, 2012, Pages 4128-4133

  Wu, Yilin ^a,b   Berg, Howard C ^a,b  

^a HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Biofilm; Flagellar motility; Living fluids; Microbubble; Osmotic flow

Indexed keywords

FUEL; GREEN FLUORESCENT PROTEIN;

ARTICLE; CELL COMMUNICATION; CELL DENSITY; CELL GROWTH; CELL METABOLISM; DIFFUSION; ESCHERICHIA COLI; FLUID FLOW; FLUORESCENCE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; WATER SUPPLY;

CELL PROLIFERATION; COLONY COUNT, MICROBIAL; ESCHERICHIA COLI; MICROBUBBLES; MICROSCOPY, PHASE-CONTRAST; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; MOVEMENT; RHEOLOGY; WATER MICROBIOLOGY;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); ESCHERICHIA COLI;

EID: 84863273496     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: 10916490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1118238109     Document Type: Article

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