Pattern formation by competition: a biological example
Biological Physics
2007-05-23 v1 Statistical Mechanics
Pattern Formation and Solitons
patt-sol
Populations and Evolution
Abstract
We present a simple model based on a reaction-diffusion equation to explain pattern formation in a multicellular bacterium (Streptomyces). We assume competition for resources as the basic mechanism that leads to pattern formation; in particular we are able to reproduce the spatial pattern formed by bacterial aerial mycelium in case of growth in minimal (low resources) and maximal (large resources) culture media.
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Cite
@article{arxiv.physics/9909012,
title = {Pattern formation by competition: a biological example},
author = {M. Bezzi and A. Ciliberto and A. Mengoni},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:physics/9909012},
year = {2007}
}
Comments
10 pages, 6 figures (Postscript), to appear in Journal of biological Physics