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Spatial self-organization resolves conflicts between individuality and collective migration.
Nature communications - 5 Jun 2018
Fu X, Kato S, Long J, Mattingly H H, He C, Vural D C, Zucker S W, Emonet T
Abstract excerpt
Collective behavior can spontaneously emerge when individuals follow common rules of interaction. However, the behavior of each individual differs due to existing genetic and non-genetic variation within the population. It remains unclear how this individuality is managed to achieve collective behavior. We quantify individuality in bands of clonal Escherichia coli cells that migrate collectively along a channel...
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