Influence of nutrient availability and quorum sensing on the formation of metabolically inactive microcolonies within structurally heterogeneous bacterial biofilms: an individual-based 3D cellular automata model

DOI10.1007/s11538-017-0246-9zbMath1373.92084OpenAlexW2580095448WikidataQ46427009 ScholiaQ46427009MaRDI QIDQ2012318

Parag D. Pawar, Anil Rajapantul, Lakshmi Machineni, Vandana Nandamuri

Publication date: 28 July 2017

Published in: Bulletin of Mathematical Biology (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: http://raiith.iith.ac.in/3021/1/Manuscript%20I%2C%20BiofilmHeterogeneity%2C%20Lakshmi%20Machineni.pdf

zbMATH Keywords

heterogeneityquorum sensingbiofilmsautoinducerextracellular polymeric substancesmetabolic diversity

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Cellular automata (computational aspects) (68Q80) Physiological, cellular and medical topics (92C99) Computational methods for problems pertaining to biology (92-08)

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Uses Software

• BacSim

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