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Up to now the social gliding and aggregation of myxobacteria has not been explained definitely. To get a better insight, several hypotheses were tested by Monte Carlo simulations, where the bacteria are represented by rod shaped figures moving in a square with periodic boundary conditions. Among these hypotheses are, for example, slime trail following and response to a diffusing chemo-attractant. The results of these simulations are the basis for a mathematical model.
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Stevens, A. (1990). Simulations of the Gliding Behavior and Aggregation of Myxobacteria. In: Alt, W., Hoffmann, G. (eds) Biological Motion. Lecture Notes in Biomathematics, vol 89. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-51664-1_36
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