The ecological basis of morphogenesis: branching patterns in swarming colonies of bacteria

Understanding how large-scale shapes in tissues, organs and bacterial colonies emerge from local interactions among cells and how these shapes remain stable over time are two fundamental problems in biology. Here we investigate branching morphogenesis in an experimental model system, swarming coloni...

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Main Authors: Pan Deng, Laura de Vargas Roditi, Dave van Ditmarsch, Joao B Xavier
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: IOP Publishing 2014-01-01
Series:New Journal of Physics
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1088/1367-2630/16/1/015006