Swimming motility plays a key role in the stochastic dynamics of cell clumping

Physical Biology

Volumn 10, Issue 2, 2013, Pages

  Qi, Xianghong ^a,b   Nellas, Ricky B ^a,b   Byrn, Matthew W ^a   Russell, Matthew H ^a   Bible, Amber N ^a   Alexandre, Gladys ^a   Shen, Tongye ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TENNESSEE   (United States)

^b OAK RIDGE NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AZOSPIRILLUM BRASILENSE; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS);

ARTICLE; AZOSPIRILLUM BRASILENSE; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; CHEMOTAXIS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; FLAGELLUM; MOVEMENT (PHYSIOLOGY); PHYSIOLOGY; STATISTICS;

AZOSPIRILLUM BRASILENSE; CHEMOTAXIS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; FLAGELLA; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; MOVEMENT; STOCHASTIC PROCESSES;

EID: 84876224456     PISSN: 14783967     EISSN: 14783975     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/1478-3975/10/2/026005     Document Type: Article

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