A mechanistic stochastic framework for regulating bacterial cell division

Scientific Reports

Volumn 6, Issue , 2016, Pages

  Ghusinga, Khem Raj ^a   Vargas Garcia, Cesar A ^a   Singh, Abhyudai ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF DELAWARE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL CELL; CELL DIVISION; CELL SIZE; EXPERIMENTAL MODEL; EXPERIMENTAL STUDY; GROWTH RATE; HISTOGRAM; HUMAN; NEWBORN; NOISE; STOCHASTIC MODEL; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; CELL CYCLE; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENETICS; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; HOMEOSTASIS; PROKARYOTIC CELL; SINGLE CELL ANALYSIS;

CELL CYCLE; CELL DIVISION; CELL SIZE; ESCHERICHIA COLI; HOMEOSTASIS; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; PROKARYOTIC CELLS; SINGLE-CELL ANALYSIS;

EID: 84979600112     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20452322     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/srep30229     Document Type: Article

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