Agent-Based Modeling Reveals Possible Mechanisms for Observed Aggregation Cell Behaviors in Myxococcus xanthus
Z. Zhang, C. R. Cotter, L. J. Shimkets, O. A. Igoshin
The paper uses an agent-based model to show that chemotaxis with adaptation explains M. xanthus cell aggregation and alignment during starvation.
bioRxiv · May 11, 2018Microbiology