Interconnected Cavernous Structure of Bacterial Fruiting Bodies
Figure 9
Simulation results for 1D cells in track model.
A) Plot shows the effect of decreasing the passing probability from 1.0 to 0.1 by looking at the fraction of empty positions in the track. The different curves correspond to different rates of C-signal transfer between neighbors. Results are shown for 20 different values of passing probability and five different transfer rates. Averages were taken from 100 simulations for each set of parameters. B) Spore distribution along circular track for three simulation results. The radial distance corresponds to the number of spores while the angular position denotes the position in the circular track (The outer circle is for a spore count of 10 while the middle circle corresponds to five spores). The passing probability P varies for the three simulations from 1.0 to 0.05. Figure demonstrates how spores clustering is increased as passing probability decreases.