Phenotypic Heterogeneity and the Evolution of Bacterial Life Cycles
Fig 3
Population size and fraction of sticky cells on surface and in liquid.
(A) Population size on surface for three differentiation strategies (blue = pure strategy, red = probabilistic strategy, green = decision-making strategy) at different relative cell division rates of sticky cells (R). The carrying capacity of surface is 10.000 cells. (B) Fraction of sticky cells on surface and in liquid. Fraction of sticky cells on surface is only calculated for the simulations in which more than 100 cells attached to the surface. For low cell division rates of the sticky cell, only the decision-making cells attached to the surface. The black arrows in (A) and (B) point to simulations in which the sticky cells could not divide (R = 0). This condition is further examined in Fig 4 and Fig 5.