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Adaptive Branching During Colonial Development of Lubricating Bacteria

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Branching in Nature

Part of the book series: Centre de Physique des Houches ((LHWINTER,volume 14))

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Many bacterial strains exhibit beautiful branching patterns during colonial development. Much effort is devoted to the search for basic principles of self-organization (growth, communication, regulation and control) on the cellular and multi-cellular levels. Our approach is to use the successful conceptual framework for branching growth patterns in non-living systems as a tool to understand their significantly more complex biological counterparts.

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Golding, I., Cohen, I., Ron, I.G., Ben-Jacob, E. (2001). Adaptive Branching During Colonial Development of Lubricating Bacteria. In: Fleury, V., Gouyet, JF., Léonetti, M. (eds) Branching in Nature. Centre de Physique des Houches, vol 14. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-662-06162-6_18

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