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SUBMITTER: Zhang Z
PROVIDER: S-EPMC6301987 | biostudies-literature | 2018 Dec
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Biophysical journal 20181110 12
Myxococcus xanthus is a soil bacterium that serves as a model system for biological self-organization. Cells form distinct, dynamic patterns depending on environmental conditions. An agent-based model was used to understand how M. xanthus cells aggregate into multicellular mounds in response to starvation. In this model, each cell is modeled as an agent represented by a point particle and characterized by its position and moving direction. At low agent density, the model recapitulates the dynami ...[more]