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physics.bio-ph2017★ 113 cited
A self-driven phase transition drives Myxococcus xanthus fruiting body formation
Guannan Liu, Adam Patch, Fatmagul Bahar +5
Combining high-resolution single cell tracking experiments with numerical simulations, we show that starvation-induced fruiting body (FB) formation in Myxococcus xanthus is a phase…
physics.bio-ph2017★ 66 cited
Collective force generation by groups of migrating bacteria
Benedikt Sabass, Howard A. Stone, Joshua W. Shaevitz
From biofilm and colony formation in bacteria to wound healing and embryonic development in multicellular organisms, groups of living cells must often move collectively. While cons…