Earthquake-like dynamics in Myxococcus xanthus social motility

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

Volumn 110, Issue 6, 2013, Pages 2330-2335

  Gibiansky, Maxsim L ^a   Hu, Wei ^a,b   Dahmen, Karin A ^c   Shi, Wenyuan ^a   Wong, Gerard C L ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b SHANDONG UNIVERSITY   (China)

^c University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign   (United States)

Author keywords

Biofilm; Proteobacteria; Sociomicrobiology; Tribology; Twitching

Indexed keywords

EXOPOLYSACCHARIDE;

ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; CELL MOTILITY; CHAOTIC DYNAMICS; CONTROLLED STUDY; FORCE; HISTOGRAM; LEISURE; MICROBIAL ACTIVITY; MOLECULAR DYNAMICS; MOTION; MYXOCOCCUS XANTHUS; NOISE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; VELOCITY; VISCOELASTICITY;

ALGORITHMS; FIMBRIAE, BACTERIAL; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; MOLECULAR STRUCTURE; MOVEMENT; MUTATION; MYXOCOCCUS XANTHUS; POLYSACCHARIDES, BACTERIAL;

EID: 84873446905     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: 10916490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1215089110     Document Type: Article

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