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A growing bacterial colony in two dimensions as an active nematic

How a single bacterium becomes a colony of many thousand cells is important in biomedicine and food safety. Much is known about the molecular and genetic bases of this process, but less about the underlying physical mechanisms. Here we study the growth of single-layer micro-colonies of rod-shaped Es...

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Autores principales: Dell’Arciprete, D., Blow, M. L., Brown, A. T., Farrell, F. D. C., Lintuvuori, J. S., McVey, A. F., Marenduzzo, D., Poon, W. C. K.
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Nature Publishing Group UK 2018
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6180060/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/30305618
http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/s41467-018-06370-3