Swarming: Flexible roaming plans

Journal of Bacteriology

Volumn 195, Issue 5, 2013, Pages 909-918

  Partridge, Jonathan D ^a   Harshey, Rasika M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGAR; BACTERIAL PROTEIN; FLIL PROTEIN; MOT PROTEIN; NITRATE; POLYSACCHARIDE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

BACTERIAL COLONIZATION; BACTERIAL FLAGELLUM; BACTERIUM SWARMING; CELL DENSITY; CHEMOTAXIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; COPING BEHAVIOR; ECOLOGICAL NICHE; GENE CONTROL; GROUP DYNAMICS; MICROBIAL ACTIVITY; MORPHOLOGY; NONHUMAN; NUTRITIONAL REQUIREMENT; PATHOGENICITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; SURFACE TENSION;

AGAR; BACTERIA; BACTERIAL PHYSIOLOGICAL PHENOMENA; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; CHEMOTAXIS; CULTURE MEDIA; CYCLIC GMP; FLAGELLA; FRICTION; MEMBRANE PROTEINS; QUORUM SENSING; SURFACE TENSION; VIRULENCE;

EID: 84873527638     PISSN: 00219193     EISSN: 10985530     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/JB.02063-12     Document Type: Review

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