ArticleJournal of bacteriology2008
Chemotaxis as an emergent property of a swarm.
Article in Journal of bacteriology, 2008. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 14 papers.
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- Interplay of mesoscale physics and agent-like behaviors in the parallel evolution of aggregative multicellularity.EvoDevo · 2020Review
- Reentrant Efficiency of Phototaxis in Chlamydomonas reinhardtii Cells.Biophysical journal · 2019Article
- Collective gradient sensing and chemotaxis: modeling and recent developments.Journal of physics. Condensed matter : an Institute of Physics journal · 2018Review
- Physical models of collective cell motility: from cell to tissue.Journal of physics D: Applied physics · 2017Article
- Single-cell twitching chemotaxis in developing biofilms.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2016Article
- Symmetries and pattern formation in hyperbolic versus parabolic models of self-organised aggregation.Journal of mathematical biology · 2015Article
- Chemosensory signaling controls motility and subcellular polarity in Myxococcus xanthus.Current opinion in microbiology · 2012Review
- Genome sequence of the pattern forming Paenibacillus vortex bacterium reveals potential for thriving in complex environments.BMC genomics · 2010Article
- Recording multicellular behavior in Myxococcus xanthus biofilms using time-lapse microcinematography.Journal of visualized experiments : JoVE · 2010Article
- Gliding motility revisited: how do the myxobacteria move without flagella?Microbiology and molecular biology reviews : MMBR · 2010Review
- Deciphering the hunting strategy of a bacterial wolfpack.FEMS microbiology reviews · 2009Review
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Abstract
We have characterized and quantified a form of bacterial chemotaxis that manifests only as an emergent property by measuring symmetry breaking in a swarm of Myxococcus xanthus exposed to a two-dimensional nutrient gradient from within an agar substrate. M. xanthus chemotaxis requires cell-cell contact and coordinated motility, as individual motile cells exhibit only nonvectorial movement in the presence of a nutrient gradient. Genes that specifically affect M. xanthus chemotaxis include at least 10 of the 53 that express enhancer binding proteins of the NtrC-like class, an indication that this behavior is controlled through transcription, most likely by a complex signal transduction network.
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