Social interactions in myxobacterial swarming.

Swarming, a collective motion of many thousands of cells, produces colonies that rapidly spread over surfaces. In this paper, we introduce a cell-based model to study how interactions between neighboring cells facilitate swarming. We chose to study Myxococcus xanthus, a species of myxobacteria, beca...

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Main Authors: Yilin Wu, Yi Jiang, Dale Kaiser, Mark Alber
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2007-12-01
Series:PLoS Computational Biology
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC2230681?pdf=render