An age-structured continuum model for myxobacteria

DOI10.1142/S0218202518400043zbMATH Open1414.35234arXiv1702.06939OpenAlexW2590967790WikidataQ129750920 ScholiaQ129750920MaRDI QIDQ4630558FDOQ4630558

Authors: Angelika Manhart, H. Yu, Pierre Degond 

Publication date: 27 March 2019

Published in: M\(^3\)AS. Mathematical Models \& Methods in Applied Sciences (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: Myxobacteria are social bacteria, that can glide in 2D and form counter-propagating, interacting waves. Here we present a novel age-structured, continuous macroscopic model for the movement of myxobacteria. The derivation is based on microscopic interaction rules that can be formulated as a particle-based model and set within the SOH (Self-Organized Hydrodynamics) framework. The strength of this combined approach is that microscopic knowledge or data can be incorporated easily into the particle model, whilst the continuous model allows for easy numerical analysis of the different effects. However we found that the derived macroscopic model lacks a diffusion term in the density equations, which is necessary to control the number of waves, indicating that a higher order approximation during the derivation is crucial. Upon ad-hoc addition of the diffusion term, we found very good agreement between the age-structured model and the biology. In particular we analyzed the influence of a refractory (insensitivity) period following a reversal of movement. Our analysis reveals that the refractory period is not necessary for wave formation, but essential to wave synchronization, indicating separate molecular mechanisms.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1702.06939

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zbMATH Keywords

myxobacteriahydrodynamic limitdiffusion correctionself-propelled particlesrefractory periodgeneralized collision invariantnematic alignmentwave formation

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Animal behavior (92D50) Nonlinear parabolic equations (35K55) First-order nonlinear hyperbolic equations (35L60) Fokker-Planck equations (35Q84) PDEs in connection with biology, chemistry and other natural sciences (35Q92) Finite difference methods for initial value and initial-boundary value problems involving PDEs (65M06) Interacting particle systems in time-dependent statistical mechanics (82C22) Stochastic methods (Fokker-Planck, Langevin, etc.) applied to problems in time-dependent statistical mechanics (82C31) Computational methods for problems pertaining to biology (92-08) Developmental biology, pattern formation (92C15) Classical dynamic and nonequilibrium statistical mechanics (general) (82C05) Transport processes in time-dependent statistical mechanics (82C70)

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