Decision making improves sperm chemotaxis in the presence of noise.

To navigate their surroundings, cells rely on sensory input that is corrupted by noise. In cells performing chemotaxis, such noise arises from the stochastic binding of signalling molecules at low chemoattractant concentrations. We reveal a fundamental relationship between the speed of chemotactic s...

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Main Authors: Justus A Kromer, Steffen Märcker, Steffen Lange, Christel Baier, Benjamin M Friedrich
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2018-04-01
Series:PLoS Computational Biology
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC5929576?pdf=render