Bacterial Colony from Two-Dimensional Division to Three-Dimensional Development

PLoS ONE

Volumn 7, Issue 11, 2012, Pages

  Su, Pin Tzu ^a   Liao, Chih Tang ^b   Roan, Jiunn Ren ^b   Wang, Shao Hung ^c   Chiou, Arthur ^a   Syu, Wan Jr ^a  

^a NATIONAL YANG MING UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^b NATIONAL CHUNG HSING UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^c NATIONAL CHIAYI UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL CELL; BACTERIAL GROWTH; BACTERIAL STRAIN; BACTERIUM COLONY; BACTERIUM CULTURE; CELL DIVISION; CELL EXPANSION; CELL ORGANELLE; CONFOCAL LASER MICROSCOPY; CULTURE MEDIUM; DAUGHTER CELL; ENTEROHEMORRHAGIC ESCHERICHIA COLI; FLUORESCENCE IMAGING; IMAGE ANALYSIS; NONHUMAN; PHASE CONTRAST MICROSCOPY;

AGAR; CELL DIVISION; ESCHERICHIA COLI; MICROSCOPY, CONFOCAL;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS);

EID: 84869105693     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0048098     Document Type: Article

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