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Multi-fractal characterization of bacterial swimming dynamics: a case study on real and simulated Serratia marcescens

2017

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To add to the current state of knowledge about bacterial swimming dynamics, in this paper, we study the fractal swimming dynamics of populations of Serratia marcescens bacteria both in vitro and in silico, while accounting for realistic conditions like volume exclusion, chemical interactions, obstacles and distribution of chemoattractant in the environment. While previous research has shown that bacterial motion is non-ergodic, we demonstrate that, besides the non-ergodicity, the bacterial swimming dynamics is multi-fractal in nature. Finally, we demonstrate that the multi-fractal characteristic of bacterial dynamics is strongly affected by bacterial density and chemoattractant concentration.

Author(s): Koorehdavoudi, Hana and Bogdan, Paul and Wei, Guopeng and Marculescu, Radu and Zhuang, Jiang and Carlsen, Rika Wright and Sitti, Metin
Journal: Proceedings of the Royal Society of London A: Mathematical, Physical and Engineering Sciences
Volume: 473
Number (issue): 2203
Year: 2017

Department(s): Physical Intelligence
Bibtex Type: Article (article)
Paper Type: Journal

DOI: 10.1098/rspa.2017.0154

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@article{Koorehdavoudi20170154,
  title = {Multi-fractal characterization of bacterial swimming dynamics: a case study on real and simulated Serratia marcescens},
  author = {Koorehdavoudi, Hana and Bogdan, Paul and Wei, Guopeng and Marculescu, Radu and Zhuang, Jiang and Carlsen, Rika Wright and Sitti, Metin},
  journal = {Proceedings of the Royal Society of London A: Mathematical, Physical and Engineering Sciences},
  volume = {473},
  number = {2203},
  year = {2017},
  doi = {10.1098/rspa.2017.0154}
}