Colony Expansion of Socially Motile Myxococcus xanthus Cells Is Driven by Growth, Motility, and Exopolysaccharide Production

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Pintu Patra,

Affiliation Department of Bioengineering, Rice University, Houston, Texas, United States of America
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Kimberley Kissoon,

Affiliation Department of Natural Sciences, Del Mar College, Corpus Christi, Texas, United States of America
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Isabel Cornejo,

Affiliation Department of Natural Sciences, University of Houston-Downtown, Houston, Texas, United States of America
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Heidi B. Kaplan,

Affiliation Department of Microbiology and Molecular Genetics, University of Texas Medical School, Houston, Texas, United States of America
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Oleg A. Igoshin

* E-mail: igoshin@rice.edu

Affiliation Department of Bioengineering, Rice University, Houston, Texas, United States of America
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