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SUBMITTER: Lim S
PROVIDER: S-EPMC6448878 | biostudies-literature | 2019
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Lim Sean S Guo Xiaokan X Boedicker James Q JQ
PloS one 20190404 4
Some strains of motile bacteria self-organize to form spatial patterns of high and low cell density over length scales that can be observed by eye. One such collective behavior is the formation in semisolid agar media of a high cell density swarm band. We isolated 7 wild strains of the Enterobacter cloacae complex capable of forming this band and found its propagation speed can vary 2.5 fold across strains. To connect such variability in collective motility to strain properties, each strain's si ...[more]