Bacterial Route Finding and Collective Escape in Mazes and Fractals
Bacteria which grow not on the featureless agar plates of the microbiology lab but in the real world must navigate topologies which are nontrivially complex, such as mazes or fractals. We show that chemosensitive motile E. coli can efficiently explore nontrivial mazes in times much shorter than a no...
| Main Authors: | , , , , , , , , |
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| Format: | Article |
| Language: | English |
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American Physical Society
2020-07-01
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| Series: | Physical Review X |
| Online Access: | http://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevX.10.031017 |