Spatial self-organization resolves conflicts between individuality and collective migration

How bacteria migrate collectively despite individual phenotypic variation is not understood. Here, the authors show that cells spontaneously sort themselves within moving bands such that variations in individual tumble bias, a determinant of gradient climbing speed, are compensated by the local grad...

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Main Authors: X. Fu, S. Kato, J. Long, H. H. Mattingly, C. He, D. C. Vural, S. W. Zucker, T. Emonet
Format: article
Language:EN
Published: Nature Portfolio 2018
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Online Access:https://doaj.org/article/b4578dea352e4ca5846b056dd802fa95
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