Stigmergy: A key driver of self-organization in bacterial biofilms

Communicative and Integrative Biology

Volumn 6, Issue 6, 2013, Pages

  Gloag, Erin S ^a   Javed, Muhammad A ^b   Wang, Huabin ^c   Gee, Michelle L ^c   Wade, Scott A ^b   Turnbull, Lynne ^a   Whitchurch, Cynthia B ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY SYDNEY   (Australia)

^b SWINBURNE UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Australia)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE   (Australia)

Author keywords

Biofilms; Collective behaviour; Pseudomonas aeruginosa; Self organisation; Twitching motility

Indexed keywords

EID: 84894039795     PISSN: 19420889     EISSN: 19420889     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.4161/cib.27331     Document Type: Article

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