Cell polarity-driven instability generates self-organized, fractal patterning of cell layers

ACS Synthetic Biology

Volumn 2, Issue 12, 2013, Pages 705-714

  Rudge, Timothy J ^a   Federici, Fernán ^a   Steiner, Paul J ^a   Kan, Anton ^a   Haseloff, Jim ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

bacteria; biofilm; biophysics; confocal; fractal; GPU; pattern; self organization

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BACILLUS SUBTILIS; BACTERIAL CELL; BIOPHYSICS; CELL DIVISION; CELL GROWTH; CELL POLARITY; CELL POPULATION; CELL SHAPE; CONFOCAL MICROSCOPY; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GEOMETRY; NONHUMAN; PHYSICAL CHEMISTRY; PLASMID; PRIORITY JOURNAL; BIOFILM; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; FRACTAL ANALYSIS; PHYSIOLOGY;

BIOFILMS; BIOPHYSICS; CELL POLARITY; ESCHERICHIA COLI; FRACTALS; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL;

EID: 84890928592     PISSN: None     EISSN: 21615063     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/sb400030p     Document Type: Article

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