Fig. 2: Simulations of growing colonies. | Communications Physics

Fig. 2: Simulations of growing colonies.

From: Non-equilibrium dynamics of bacterial colonies—growth, active fluctuations, segregation, adhesion, and invasion

Fig. 2

a Simulation snapshots showing colony formation. b Confocal section of a microcolony of fluorescently labeled N. gonorrhoeae. Scale bar: 5 μm. c The colony radii increase exponentially with time during the simulations. Growth and division are switched off before the end of the simulation. Inset: the number of cells increases exponentially with time and simulation results agree with an analytical expression.

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