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Bacterial stigmergy: an organising principle of multicellular collective behaviours of bacteria.
Review in Scientifica, 2015. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 10 papers.
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10 citing papers in PubMed.
- Cooperation and deception through stigmergic interactions in human groups.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2023Article
- The role of hydrodynamics in collective motions of fish schools and bioinspired underwater robots.Journal of the Royal Society, Interface · 2023Article
- Minimal physicalism as a scale-free substrate for cognition and consciousness.Neuroscience of consciousness · 2021Article
- A systematic approach to cancer: evolution beyond selection.Clinical and translational medicine · 2017Article
- Pulse Generation in the Quorum Machinery of Pseudomonas aeruginosa.Bulletin of mathematical biology · 2017Article
- Stigmergy co-ordinates multicellular collective behaviours during Myxococcus xanthus surface migration.Scientific reports · 2016Article
- Cognition, Information Fields and Hologenomic Entanglement: Evolution in Light and Shadow.Biology · 2016Article
- Micro-Patterned Surfaces That Exploit Stigmergy to Inhibit Biofilm Expansion.Frontiers in microbiology · 2016Article
- Myxobacteria: Moving, Killing, Feeding, and Surviving Together.Frontiers in microbiology · 2016Review
- Nonclinical research areas of future importance for clinical therapies: Exploring the concepts of nonlinearity in dentistry.Journal of conservative dentistry : JCDReview
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Abstract
The self-organisation of collective behaviours often manifests as dramatic patterns of emergent large-scale order. This is true for relatively "simple" entities such as microbial communities and robot "swarms," through to more complex self-organised systems such as those displayed by social insects, migrating herds, and many human activities. The principle of stigmergy describes those self-organised phenomena that emerge as a consequence of indirect communication between individuals of the group through the generation of persistent cues in the environment. Interestingly, despite numerous examples of multicellular behaviours of bacteria, the principle of stigmergy has yet to become an accepted theoretical framework that describes how bacterial collectives self-organise. Here we review some examples of multicellular bacterial behaviours in the context of stigmergy with the aim of bringing this powerful and elegant self-organisation principle to the attention of the microbial research community.
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