{"title":"Studies of sector formation in expanding bacterial colonies","authors":"I. Golding, I. Cohen, E. Ben-Jacob","doi":"10.1209/epl/i1999-00524-7","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1209/epl/i1999-00524-7","url":null,"abstract":"We study sector formation in expanding bacterial colonies grown on a substrate with low level of nutrient. Bursts of sectors are observed both during compact growth on soft agar and during branching growth on semi-solid agar. For theoretical studies of these bursts we employ two mathematical models we have used successfully in the past to study patterning of bacterial colonies: a discrete model and a continuous reaction-diffusion model. Using these models we investigate the amount of segregation achieved by a neutral mutation, as well as by mutations having some advantage over the wild type. We also study the effect of chemotaxis signaling on the sector formation.","PeriodicalId":138969,"journal":{"name":"Europhysics Letters (EPL)","volume":"32 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1998-11-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"122556118","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}