Quantitative studies of bacterial chemotaxis and microbial population dynamics

@article{1991Lauffenburger, abstract = {Abstract\ \ Although there is a long history of conjecture regarding the role and significance of bacterial chemotaxis in microbial ecology, only recently has a significant body of work appeared attempting to address this issue. The purpose of this paper is to provide a concise overview of this work, which combined mathematical modeling of bacterial population migration and experimental measurement of the model parameters with modeling of competitive microbial population dynamics in a nonmixed environment. Predictions from the population dynamics models, based on experimental estimates of the various motility and growth parameter values, are related to the small number of experimental observations available to date dealing with the effects of bacterial motility on competition in a nonmixed environment. Current results indicate that cell motility and chemotaxis properties can be as important to population dynamics as cell growth kinetic properties, so that greater attention to this aspect of microbial behavior is warranted in future studies of microbial ecology.}, author = {Lauffenburger, Douglas }, citeulike-article-id = {2677855}, doi = {http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/BF02540222}, journal = {Microbial Ecology}, keywords = {bacterial, chemotaxis, competition, ecology, population}, month = {December}, number = {1}, pages = {175--185}, posted-at = {2008-04-16 13:50:46}, priority = {0}, title = {Quantitative studies of bacterial chemotaxis and microbial population dynamics}, url = {http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/BF02540222}, volume = {22}, year = {1991} }

TY - JOUR ID - 1991Lauffenburger L3 - citeulike-article-id:2677855 N2 - Abstract  Although there is a long history of conjecture regarding the role and significance of bacterial chemotaxis in microbial ecology, only recently has a significant body of work appeared attempting to address this issue. The purpose of this paper is to provide a concise overview of this work, which combined mathematical modeling of bacterial population migration and experimental measurement of the model parameters with modeling of competitive microbial population dynamics in a nonmixed environment. Predictions from the population dynamics models, based on experimental estimates of the various motility and growth parameter values, are related to the small number of experimental observations available to date dealing with the effects of bacterial motility on competition in a nonmixed environment. Current results indicate that cell motility and chemotaxis properties can be as important to population dynamics as cell growth kinetic properties, so that greater attention to this aspect of microbial behavior is warranted in future studies of microbial ecology. IS - 1 JF - Microbial Ecology EP - 185 TI - Quantitative studies of bacterial chemotaxis and microbial population dynamics VL - 22 SP - 175 KW - bacterial KW - chemotaxis KW - competition KW - ecology KW - population AU - Lauffenburger, Douglas PY - 1991/12/05/ UR - http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/BF02540222 ER -