From organized internal traffic to collective navigation of bacterial swarms

Bacterial swarming resulting in collective navigation over surfaces provides a valuable example of cooperative colonization of new territories. The social bacterium Paenibacillus vortex exhibits successful and diverse swarming strategies. When grown on hard agar surfaces with peptone , P. vortex dev...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Gil Ariel, Adi Shklarsh, Oren Kalisman, Colin Ingham, Eshel Ben-Jacob
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: IOP Publishing 2013-01-01
Series:New Journal of Physics
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1088/1367-2630/15/12/125019