How the motility pattern of bacteria affects their dispersal and chemotaxis

PLoS ONE

Volumn 8, Issue 12, 2013, Pages

  Taktikos, Johannes ^a,b,c   Stark, Holger ^b   Zaburdaev, Vasily ^a,c  

^a MAX PLANCK INSTITUT FÜR PHYSIK KOMPLEXER SYSTEME   (Germany)

^b TECHNISCHE UNIVERSITÄT BERLIN   (Germany)

^c HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL PHYSIOLOGICAL PHENOMENA; CHEMOTAXIS; ESCHERICHIA COLI; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; MOVEMENT; VIBRIO ALGINOLYTICUS;

EID: 84894241186     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0081936     Document Type: Article

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