Social bacteria build shelters using the physics of fingerprints Love it when Myxo is in th…
Social bacteria build shelters using the physics of fingerprints Love it when Myxo is in th…
Forest-dwelling bacteria known for forming slimy swarms that prey on other microbes can also cooperate to construct mushroom-like survival shelters known as fruiting bodies when food is scarce. Now a team at Princeton University has discovered the physics behind how these rod-shaped bacteria, which align in patterns like those on fingerprint whorls and liquid crystal displays, build the layers of these fruiting bodies. The study was published in Nature Physics.
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