Proteus mirabilis swarm-colony development with drift
✍ Scribed by Philippe Laurençot; Christoph Walker
- Publisher
- Elsevier Science
- Year
- 2009
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 270 KB
- Volume
- 92
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 0021-7824
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✦ Synopsis
We prove a global existence result for a model describing the swarming phenomenon of the bacterium Proteus mirabilis. The model consists of an ordinary differential equation coupled with an age-structured equation involving nonlinear degenerate diffusion term and an additional drift term.
📜 SIMILAR VOLUMES
We present models and computational results which indicate that the spatial and temporal regularity seen in Proteus mirabilis swarm-colony development is largely an expression of a specific, nearly precise age of dedifferentiation in the cell cycle from motile swarmer cells to immotile dividing cell