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ArticleNature2019

Chemotaxis as a navigation strategy to boost range expansion.

Jonas Cremer, Tomoya Honda, Ying Tang, Jerome Wong-Ng, Massimo Vergassola, Terence Hwa

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Article in Nature, 2019. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 95 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.

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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

The trial behind it

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Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.

3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

95 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it.

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  19. Spatial self-organization of confined bacterial suspensions.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2025
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  20. Sociohydrodynamics: Data-driven modeling of social behavior.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2025
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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

6 authors.

Jonas Cremer *Department of Physics, University of California at San Diego, La Jolla, CA, USA.
Tomoya Honda *Division of Biological Sciences, University of California at San Diego, La Jolla, CA, USA.
Ying TangDepartment of Physics, University of California at San Diego, La Jolla, CA, USA.
Jerome Wong-NgDepartment of Physics, University of California at San Diego, La Jolla, CA, USA.
Massimo VergassolaDepartment of Physics, University of California at San Diego, La Jolla, CA, USA.
Terence HwaDepartment of Physics, University of California at San Diego, La Jolla, CA, USA. hwa@ucsd.edu.

Funding

Quantitative Studies of Bacterial Growth PhysiologyR01GM095903 · NIGMS · UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, SAN DIEGO · PI HWA, TERENCE · 2011 to 2023
$3.8M
NIGMS NIH HHS R01 GM095903
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Bacterial chemotaxis, the directed movement of cells along gradients of chemoattractants, is among the best-characterized subjects in molecular biology

Indexed as

Models, BiologicalAgarChemotaxisEscherichia coliNutrientsPopulation GrowthAgarNutrients

Identifiers

PMID31695195
PMCPMC6883170

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