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2 - Statistics of Bacterial Motility

from Part I - Physical Tools

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  12 December 2024

Thomas Andrew Waigh
Thomas Andrew Waigh
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University of Manchester
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Summary

Considers diffusion and statistical models for bacterial motility from the perspective of anomalous transport.

Keywords

motilitycellsstatistical tools
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The Physics of Bacteria
From Cells to Biofilms
 , pp. 22 - 31
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2024

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