Remarks on a population-level model of chemotaxis: advection-diffusion approximation and simulations
published by Eduardo D. Sontag
in 2013
in Biology
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English
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Abstract in English
This note works out an advection-diffusion approximation to the density of a population of E. coli bacteria undergoing chemotaxis in a one-dimensional space. Simulations show the high quality of predictions under a shallow-gradient regime.