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Self-Driven Jamming in Growing Microbial Populations

In natural settings, microbes tend to grow in dense populations [1–4] where they need to push against their surroundings to accommodate space for new cells. The associated contact forces play a critical role in a variety of population-level processes, including biofilm formation [5–7], the colonizat...

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Autores principales: Delarue, Morgan, Hartung, Jörn, Schreck, Carl, Gniewek, Pawel, Hu, Lucy, Herminghaus, Stephan, Hallatschek, Oskar
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: 2016
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5022770/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/27642362
http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/nphys3741