The formation of patterns in the growth of bacterial colonies has extensively been studied experimentally. Resulting morphologies appear to depend on...

predators. Multicellularity. Most bacterial species exist as single cells; others associate in characteristic patterns: Neisseria forms diploids (pairs)...

appropriate treatment, the risk of death in bacterial meningitis is less than 15%. Outbreaks of bacterial meningitis occur between December and June each...

Bacterial pneumonia is a type of pneumonia caused by bacterial infection. Streptococcus pneumoniae (J13) is the most common bacterial cause of pneumonia...

Bacterial cellular morphologies are the shapes that are characteristic of various types of bacteria and often key to their identification. Their direct...

for the evolution of bacterial flagella includes the existence of vestigial flagella, intermediate forms of flagella and patterns of similarities among...

molecular patterns (PAMPs) and include bacterial carbohydrates (such as lipopolysaccharide or LPS, mannose), nucleic acids (such as bacterial or viral...

Small intestinal bacterial overgrowth (SIBO), also termed bacterial overgrowth, or small bowel bacterial overgrowth syndrome (SBBOS), is a disorder of...

not retain the crystal violet stain used in the Gram staining method of bacterial differentiation. Their defining characteristic is that their cell envelope...

structural pore scale heterogeneities has an extra impact on the emerging bacterial patterns. A wide range of techniques is available to evaluate chemotactic activity...

PMID 18988935. Ben-Jacob E, Cohen I (1997). "Cooperative formation of bacterial patterns.". In Shapiro JA, Dworkin M (eds.). Bacteria as Multicellular Organisms...

I, Czirok A, Vicsek T. Generic modelling of cooperative growth patterns in bacterial colonies. Nature. Mar 3 1994;368(6466):46-49. Ben-Jacob E, Shochet...

umbrella term for a variety of medical conditions that incorporate bacterial and non-bacterial origin illnesses in the pelvic region. In contrast with the plain...

through an optical microscope. The thick layer of peptidoglycan in the bacterial cell wall retains the stain after it has been fixed in place by iodine...

Most types of bacteria cannot change to the endospore form. Examples of bacterial species that can form endospores include Bacillus cereus, Bacillus anthracis...

Bacterial genomes are generally smaller and less variant in size among species when compared with genomes of eukaryotes. Bacterial genomes can range in...

Bacterial motility is the ability of bacteria to move independently using metabolic energy. Most motility mechanisms that evolved among bacteria also...

heart failure, stroke, and kidney failure. The cause is typically a bacterial infection and less commonly a fungal infection. Risk factors include valvular...

Pathogen-associated molecular patterns (PAMPs) are small molecular motifs conserved within a class of microbes, but not present in the host. They are recognized...

be caused by random genetic mutation. Bacterial and viral infections can also cause fasciation. The bacterial phytopathogen Rhodococcus fascians has...

flat terrains additional pattern morphologies appear besides stripes - hexagonal gap patterns and hexagonal spot patterns. Pattern formation in this case...

pathogenicity (hrp) genes. Gene-for-gene patterns control the interactions between the Xanthomonas campestris, a bacterial pathogen, and plants. Avr genes are...

pili which are homologous to the bacterial TasA filaments, a major component of the extracellular matrix in bacterial biofilms, which contribute to biofilm...

to study of bacterial self-organization, He developed new pattern forming bacteria species, becoming a pioneer in the study of bacterial intelligence...

PMID 9891813. Ben-Jacob, E; Cohen, I. (1997). "Cooperative formation of bacterial patterns". In Shapiro, J. A.; Dworkin, M (eds.). Bacteria as Multicellular...

carbohydrates in patterns characteristic of their genus and species, the detection of fermentation products is commonly used in bacterial identification...

conduction in the heart, stroke, and kidney failure. The cause is typically a bacterial infection and less commonly a fungal infection. Risk factors include valvular...

raspberry, among others. Bacterial leaf blight of rice, caused by the bacterium Xanthomonas oryzae (Uyeda & Ishiyama) Dowson. Bacterial seedling blight of rice...

developed a fractal model of bacterial colony and identified linguistic and social patterns in colony lifecycle. Bacterial biofilms can emerge through...

Diffusion Mechanisms Chapter 4: Pattern Formation on Growing Domains: Alligators and Snakes Chapter 5: Bacterial Patterns and Chemotaxis Chapter 6: Mechanical...