Vortex Green 2\n\nEshel Ben-Jacob (credit:Eshel Ben-Jacob)
Bacteria As Art(02 of18)
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Additional\n\nA colony of the chiral morphotype of the Paenibacillus dendritiformis bacteria. Note that the branches have a well defined handeddnes – hence the term chiral. The colony diameter is 7 cm\n\nEshel Ben-Jacob (credit:Eshel Ben-Jacob)
Bacteria As Art(03 of18)
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Bacterial dragon\n\n The same as previous but for different growth conditions (level of food and surface hardness)\n\nEshel Ben-Jacob\n (credit:Eshel Ben-Jacob)
Bacteria As Art(04 of18)
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Vortex red \n\nClose look at a colony of the P. vortex bacteria\n\nEshel Ben-Jacob (credit:Eshel Ben-Jacob)
Bacteria As Art(05 of18)
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Eshel Ben-Jacob\n\nThese pictures belong to a series of remarkable patterns that Paenibacillus vortex and \n\n\n\nPaenibacillus dendritiformis bacteria form when grown in a Petri dish under different \n\n\n\ngrowth conditions. While the colors and shading are artistic additions, the image \n\n\n\ntemplates are actual colonies of tens of billions of these microorganisms. The colony \n\n\n\nstructures form as adaptive responses to laboratory-imposed stresses that mimic hostile \n\n\n\nenvironments faced in nature. They illustrate the special strategies that bacteria have \n\n\n\ndeveloped over the course of evolution, strategies that involve cooperation through \n\n\n\ncommunication. To develop such complex pattern the individual cells collectively \n\n\n\nmanipulate the overall colony organization (composed of billions of cells) for the group benefit. (credit:Eshel Ben-Jacob)
Bacteria As Art(06 of18)
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Dendrtiformis C 2\n\nEshel Ben-Jacob (credit:Eshel Ben-Jacob)