TY  - JOUR
A1  - Beta, Carsten
T1  - To turn or not to turn?
JF  - NEW JOURNAL OF PHYSICS
N2  - Bacteria typically swim in straight runs, interruped by sudden turning events. In particular, some species are limited to a reversal in the swimming direction as the only turning maneuver at their disposal. In a recent article, Grossmann et al (2016 New J. Phys. 18 043009) introduce a theoretical framework to analyze the diffusive properties of active particles following this type of run-and-reverse pattern. Based on a stochastic clock model to mimic the regulatory pathway that triggers reversal events, they show that a run-and-reverse swimmer can optimize its diffusive spreading by tuning the reversal rate according to the level of rotational noise. With their approach, they open up promising new perspectives of how to incorporate the dynamics of intracellular signaling into coarse-grained active particle descriptions.
KW  - bacterial swimming
KW  - random walks
KW  - diffusion
KW  - stochastic models
Y1  - 2016
U6  - https://doi.org/10.1088/1367-2630/18/5/051003
SN  - 1367-2630
VL  - 18
SP  - 1
EP  - 17
PB  - IOP Publ. Ltd.
CY  - Bristol
ER  -