152107 20251017144641.0 doi 10.1103/PhysRevLett.122.248102 sideral 143306 ART-2019-143306 eng Liu, Guannan Self-Driven Phase Transitions Drive Myxococcus xanthus Fruiting Body Formation 2019 Access copy available to the general public Unrestricted Combining 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. info:eu-repo/grantAgreement/ES/MINECO-FEDER/FIS2015-65078-C2-1-P info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess All rights reserved http://www.europeana.eu/rights/rr-f/ 8.385 2019 PHYSICS, MULTIDISCIPLINARY 6 / 84 = 0.071 2019 Q1 T1 3.588 2019 Physics and Astronomy (miscellaneous) 2019 Q1 info:eu-repo/semantics/article info:eu-repo/semantics/acceptedVersion Patch, Adam Bahar, Fatmagül Yllanes, David (orcid)0000-0001-7276-2942 Welch, Roy D. Marchetti, M. Cristina Thutupalli, Shashi Shaevitz, Joshua W. 122, 24 (2019), 248102 [6 pp.] Phys. rev. lett. Physical Review Letters 0031-9007 2960148 http://zaguan.unizar.es/record/152107/files/texto_completo.pdf Postprint 3385277 http://zaguan.unizar.es/record/152107/files/texto_completo.jpg?subformat=icon icon Postprint oai:zaguan.unizar.es:152107 articulos driver 2025-10-17-14:32:08 ARTICLE