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Faluweki, MK, Cammann, J, Mazza, MG and Goehring, L 
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3858-7295,
2023.
Active spaghetti: collective organization in cyanobacteria.
Physical Review Letters, 131 (15): 158303.
ISSN 0031-9007
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Abstract
Filamentous cyanobacteria can show fascinating examples of nonequilibrium self-organization, which however are not well-understood from a physical perspective. We investigate the motility and collective organization of colonies of these simple multicellular lifeforms. As their area density increases, linear chains of cells gliding on a substrate show a transition from an isotropic distribution to bundles of filaments arranged in a reticulate pattern. Based on our experimental observations of individual behavior and pairwise interactions, we introduce a nonreciprocal model accounting for the filaments' large aspect ratio, fluctuations in curvature, motility, and nematic interactions. This minimal model of active filaments recapitulates the observations, and rationalizes the appearance of a characteristic lengthscale in the system, based on the Péclet number of the cyanobacteria filaments.
| Item Type: | Journal article |
|---|---|
| Publication Title: | Physical Review Letters |
| Creators: | Faluweki, M.K., Cammann, J., Mazza, M.G. and Goehring, L. |
| Publisher: | American Physical Society (APS) |
| Date: | 13 October 2023 |
| Volume: | 131 |
| Number: | 15 |
| ISSN: | 0031-9007 |
| Identifiers: | Number Type 10.1103/physrevlett.131.158303 DOI 1821224 Other |
| Rights: | Published by the American Physical Society under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International license (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/). Further distribution of this work must maintain attribution to the author(s) and the published article’s title, journal citation, and DOI. Open access publication funded by the Max Planck Society. |
| Divisions: | Schools > School of Science and Technology |
| Record created by: | Laura Ward |
| Date Added: | 17 Oct 2023 09:24 |
| Last Modified: | 17 Oct 2023 09:24 |
| URI: | https://irep.ntu.ac.uk/id/eprint/49994 |
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