Spatial Self-Organization Resolves Conflicts Between Individuality and Collective Migration
X. Fu, S. Kato, J. Long, H. H. Mattingly, C. He, D. C. Vural, S. W. Zucker, T. Emonet
The paper studies how clonal Escherichia coli cells maintain collective migration despite individual differences in chemotactic ability through spontaneous spatial sorting within the moving band.
bioRxiv · Apr 5, 2018Biophysics