title: Dynamics of Bacillus colony growth.
abstract: A growing bacterial colony is not an amorphous mass but is a dynamic and differentiated system. It may appear chaotic in the details of its structure but it can be accurately described by simple models for fractal geometry. As Benoit Mandelbrot said: 'Surprise, simple rules can generate rich structures'.
authors.affiliation: 3 Faculty of Medicine, Charles University, Prague, Czech Republic.
authors.forename: J
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Schindler
mesh_terms: D001407:Bacillus / Q000254:growth & development* / Q000648:ultrastructure; D002455:Cell Division; D008954:Models, Biological