Do Active Nematic Self-Mixing Dynamics Help Growing Bacterial Colonies to Maintain Local Genetic Diversity?
Recent studies have shown that packings of cells, both eukaryotic cellular tissues and growing or swarming bacterial colonies, can often be understood as active nematic fluids. A key property of volume-conserving active nematic model systems is chaotic self-mixing characterized by motile topological...
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| Format: | Article |
| Language: | English |
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Frontiers Media S.A.
2022-07-01
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| Series: | Frontiers in Physics |
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| Online Access: | https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fphy.2022.940980/full |