Geometry and Mechanics of Microdomains in Growing Bacterial Colonies

Bacterial colonies are abundant on living and nonliving surfaces and are known to mediate a broad range of processes in ecology, medicine, and industry. Although extensively researched, from single cells to demographic scales, a comprehensive biomechanical picture, highlighting the cell-to-colony dy...

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Main Authors: Zhihong You, Daniel J. G. Pearce, Anupam Sengupta, Luca Giomi
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: American Physical Society 2018-09-01
Series:Physical Review X
Online Access:http://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevX.8.031065