A motility-induced phase transition drives Myxococcus xanthus aggregation
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Guannan Liu, ∗ Adam Patch, ∗ Fatmagül Bahar, ∗ David Yllanes, 4, ∗ Roy D. Welch, M. Cristina Marchetti, Shashi Thutupalli, † and Joshua W. Shaevitz ‡ Joseph Henry Laboratories of Physics and Lewis-Sigler Institute for Integrative Genomics, Princeton University, Princeton, NJ 08544, USA Department of Physics and Soft Matter Program, Syracuse University, Syracuse, NY 13244, USA Department of Biology, Syracuse University, Syracuse, NY 13244, USA Instituto de Biocomputación y F́ısica de Sistemas Complejos (BIFI), 50009 Zaragoza, Spain (Dated: September 19, 2017)
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