doi:10.1103/PhysRevLett.122.248102engLiu, GuannanPatch, AdamBahar, FatmagülYllanes, DavidWelch, Roy D.Marchetti, M. CristinaThutupalli, ShashiShaevitz, Joshua W.Self-Driven Phase Transitions Drive Myxococcus xanthus Fruiting Body FormationART-2019-143306Combining high-resolution single cell tracking experiments with numerical simulations, we show that starvation-induced fruiting body formation in Myxococcus xanthus is a phase separation driven by cells that tune their motility over time. The phase separation can be understood in terms of cell density and a dimensionless Péclet number that captures cell motility through speed and reversal frequency. Our work suggests that M. xanthus takes advantage of a self-driven nonequilibrium phase transition that can be controlled at the single cell level.2019http://zaguan.unizar.es/record/15210710.1103/PhysRevLett.122.248102http://zaguan.unizar.es/record/152107oai:zaguan.unizar.es:152107info:eu-repo/grantAgreement/ES/MINECO-FEDER/FIS2015-65078-C2-1-PPhysical Review Letters 122, 24 (2019), 248102 [6 pp.]All rights reservedhttp://www.europeana.eu/rights/rr-f/info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess