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Influence of Nutrient Limitation on Bacterial Patterns: Applying a new Bacterial Cellular Automaton Growth Model

Authors:
Jean-Denis Mathias

Keywords: Cellular automaton; bacterial colony; nutrient limitation

Abstract:
The nutrient concentration greatly influences the formation of various colony patterns generated by bacterial populations. We consider a 2D cellular automaton growth model of bacterial colony in the case of nutrient limitation. The present cellular automaton simulates the growth process in order to obtain these patterns in the case of random inoculation. We show that numerical patterns are close to those experimentally observed in the literature.

Pages: 57 to 62

Copyright: Copyright (c) IARIA, 2012

Publication date: June 24, 2012

Published in: conference

ISSN: 2308-4529

ISBN: 978-1-61208-202-8

Location: Venice, Italy

Dates: from June 24, 2012 to June 29, 2012