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A number of microorganisms leave persistent trails while moving along surfaces. For single-cell organisms, the trail-mediated self-interaction will influence its dynamics. It has been discussed recently [Kranz textit{et al.} Phys. Rev. Lett. textbf{117}, 8101 (2016)] that the self-interaction may localize the organism above a critical coupling $chi_c$ to the trail. Here we will derive a generalized active particle model capturing the key features of the self-interaction and analyze its behavior for smaller couplings $chi < chi_c$. We find that fluctuations in propulsion speed shift the localization transition to stronger couplings.
Combining high-resolution single cell tracking experiments with numerical simulations, we show that starvation-induced fruiting body (FB) formation in Myxococcus xanthus is a phase separation driven by cells that tune their motility over time. The ph
Like ants, some microorganisms are known to leave trails on surfaces to communicate. We explore how trail-mediated self-interaction could affect the behavior of individual microorganisms when diffusive spreading of the trail is negligible on the time
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