Publication Date:
2018-06-06
Description:
Spatial self-organization resolves conflicts between individuality and collective migration Spatial self-organization resolves conflicts between individuality and collective migration, Published online: 05 June 2018; doi:10.1038/s41467-018-04539-4 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 gradient steepness experienced by individuals.
Electronic ISSN:
2041-1723
Topics:
Biology
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Chemistry and Pharmacology
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Natural Sciences in General
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Physics
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