Bacterial growth: a statistical physicist's guide

Bacterial growth presents many beautiful phenomena that pose new theoretical challenges to statistical physicists, and are also amenable to laboratory experimentation. This review provides some of the essential biological background, discusses recent applications of statistical physics in this field...

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Veröffentlicht in:	Reports on progress in physics 2019-01, Vol.82 (1), p.016601-016601
Hauptverfasser:	Allen, Rosalind J, Waclaw, Bartlomiej
Format:	Artikel
Sprache:	eng
Schlagworte:	Animals bacteria Bacteria - growth & development Bacteria - metabolism Bacterial Infections - microbiology Bacterial Infections - physiopathology Humans microbiology Models, Biological Models, Statistical population dynamics statistical physics Statistics as Topic
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Zusammenfassung:	Bacterial growth presents many beautiful phenomena that pose new theoretical challenges to statistical physicists, and are also amenable to laboratory experimentation. This review provides some of the essential biological background, discusses recent applications of statistical physics in this field, and highlights the potential for future research.
ISSN:	0034-4885 1361-6633
DOI:	10.1088/1361-6633/aae546