Feeding ducks, bacterial chemotaxis, and the Gini index
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Feeding ducks, bacterial chemotaxis, and the Gini index.
Classic experiments on the distribution of ducks around separated food sources found consistency with the "ideal free" distribution in which the local population is proportional to the local supply rate. Motivated by this experiment and others, we examine the analogous problem in the microbial world: the distribution of chemotactic bacteria around multiple nearby food sources. In contrast to th...
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عنوان ژورنال: Physical Review E
سال: 2015
ISSN: 1539-3755,1550-2376
DOI: 10.1103/physreve.92.022701