Pseudo-chemotaxis of active Brownian particles competing for food.

Active Brownian particles (ABPs) are physical models for motility in simple life forms and easily studied in simulations. An open question is to what extent an increase of activity by a gradient of fuel, or food in living systems, results in an evolutionary advantage of actively moving systems such...

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Main Authors: Holger Merlitz, Hidde D Vuijk, René Wittmann, Abhinav Sharma, Jens-Uwe Sommer
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2020-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0230873