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Responding to chemical gradients: bacterial chemotaxis.
Paper summary
Reviews bacterial chemotaxis, especially temporal sensing and run-and-tumble control in E. coli. Receptor signaling, adaptation, and biased movement explain how cells navigate gradients despite noisy local measurements.
Relevance to the project
A mechanism baseline for history-sensitive resource seeking. Compare simple temporal-gradient policies with evolved movement to avoid attributing every successful aggregation to complex intelligence.
The abstract simulation need not inherit the bacterial molecular pathway.
Source record
- Reference ID
- pmc-pmc3320702
- Archived version
- PMC article HTML; manuscript/publication label retained in source
- Summary provenance
- reference-library/papers/pmc-pmc3320702/metadata.json · summary
- Review status
- initial orientation summary; not a critical full-paper review
- Reading scope
- Selected abstract/opening and available closing discussion/conclusion passages in the preserved text extract; broader project notes provide context. No reproduction of experiments, exhaustive methods review, or equation/figure audit.