Chemotaxis when bacteria remember: Drift versus diffusion

PLoS Computational Biology

Volumn 7, Issue 12, 2011, Pages

  Chatterjee, Sakuntala ^a   da Silveira, Rava Azeredo ^b,c   Kafri, Yariv ^a  

^a TECHNION ISRAEL INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Israel)

^b ECOLE NORMALE SUPÉRIEURE   (France)

^c CNRS   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIOCHEMISTRY; ESCHERICHIA COLI; NUTRIENTS;

BACTERIAL POPULATION; CHEMOTAXI; COARSE-GRAINED DESCRIPTION; ESCHERICHIA COLI BACTERIA; HIGH NUTRIENTS; NUTRIENT CONCENTRATIONS;

DIFFUSION;

ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL KINETICS; BACTERIUM MUTANT; BIOACCUMULATION; CHEMOTAXIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIFFUSION; ESCHERICHIA COLI; EVOLUTIONARY ADAPTATION; MATHEMATICAL MODEL; MICROBIAL ACTIVITY; MOLECULAR DYNAMICS; NONHUMAN; NUTRIENT CONCENTRATION; POPULATION DENSITY; STEADY STATE; VELOCITY; ALGORITHM; BACTERIAL PHENOMENA AND FUNCTIONS; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; BIOLOGY; COMPUTER SIMULATION; PHYSIOLOGY;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); ESCHERICHIA COLI;

ALGORITHMS; BACTERIAL PHYSIOLOGICAL PHENOMENA; CHEMOTAXIS; COMPUTATIONAL BIOLOGY; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DIFFUSION; ESCHERICHIA COLI; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL;

EID: 84855268768     PISSN: 1553734X     EISSN: 15537358     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pcbi.1002283     Document Type: Article

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