A model of filamentous cyanobacteria leading to reticulate pattern formation

Life

Volumn 4, Issue 3, 2014, Pages 433-456

  Tamulonis, Carlos ^a   Kaandorp, Jaap ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Computational modeling; Filamentous cyanobacteria; Stromatolites

Indexed keywords

EID: 84908137317     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20751729     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3390/life4030433     Document Type: Article

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