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ArticleProceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America2026

Initiation of swarming in

Ajesh Jose, Shira Omer Bendori, Avigdor Eldar, Daniel B Kearns, Gil Ariel, Avraham Be'er

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Article in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 2026. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 1 paper.

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1citing papers in PubMed
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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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2 · The registry

The trial behind it

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

1 citing paper in PubMed.

  1. Initiation of swarming inProceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2026
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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

6 authors.

Ajesh JoseThe Albert Katz International School for Desert Studies, The Jacob Blaustein Institutes for Desert Research, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Sede Boqer Campus, Midreshet Ben-Gurion 84990, Israel.ORCID 0000-0003-4826-119X
Shira Omer BendoriThe Shmunis School of Biomedicine and Cancer Research, Faculty of Life Sciences, Tel Aviv University, Tel Aviv 69978, Israel.
Avigdor EldarThe Shmunis School of Biomedicine and Cancer Research, Faculty of Life Sciences, Tel Aviv University, Tel Aviv 69978, Israel.
Daniel B KearnsDepartment of Biology, Indiana University, Bloomington, IN 47405.ORCID 0000-0002-3460-8378
Gil ArielDepartment of Mathematics, Bar-Ilan University, Ramat Gan 52900, Israel.ORCID 0000-0002-7251-5383
Avraham Be'erZuckerberg Institute for Water Research, The Jacob Blaustein Institutes for Desert Research, Midreshet Ben-Gurion 84990, Israel.ORCID 0000-0002-5431-1352

Funding

Swarming motility and the regulation of flagellar biosynthesis in Bacillus subtilisR35GM131783 · NIGMS · TRUSTEES OF INDIANA UNIVERSITY · PI Daniel B Kearns · 2019 to 2026
$3.9M
HHS | NIH (NIH) R35GM131783NIGMS NIH HHS R35 GM131783United States - Israel Binational Science Foundation (BSF) 2024127
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

As a single cell grows and multiplies, at what stage does it constitute a swarm? Here, we provide an answer for

Indexed as

Bacillus subtilisBacterial ProteinsMutationBacterial ProteinsBacillus subtilissoft matterswarming

Identifiers

PMID41984828
PMCPMC13099639

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