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SUBMITTER: Godany M
PROVIDER: S-EPMC5482444 | biostudies-literature | 2017
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Godány Martin M Khatri Bhavin S BS Goldstein Richard A RA
PloS one 20170623 6
Although the "adaptive" strategy used by Escherichia coli has dominated our understanding of bacterial chemotaxis, the environmental conditions under which this strategy emerged is still poorly understood. In this work, we study the performance of various chemotactic strategies under a range of stochastic time- and space-varying attractant distributions in silico. We describe a novel "speculator" response in which the bacterium compare the current attractant concentration to the long-term averag ...[more]