Abstract
Bacteria point inoculated onto the solid medium exert two-dimensional spreading growth on the surface. The colony morphologies are rich in diversity and depend on various biological and physico-chemical factors. Since it is easy to pursue the growth processes macro- and microscopically and to carry out experiments by controlling specific factors, precise experimental approaches to morphogenesis by living cells have now become possible. Several critical factors for self-similar morphogenesis were identified.
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MorphogenesisFractalPopulationBiologyBacteriaBiological systemMathematicsGeneticsSociology
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- 302-311
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Tohey Matsuyama,
Rasika M. Harshey,
Mitsugu Matsushita
(1993).
SELF-SIMILAR COLONY MORPHOGENESIS BY BACTERIA AS THE EXPERIMENTAL MODEL OF FRACTAL GROWTH BY A CELL POPULATION.
Fractals
, 01
(03)
, 302-311.
https://doi.org/10.1142/s0218348x93000320
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- 10.1142/s0218348x93000320