3 papers
q-bio.PE2019
Aging a little: The optimality of limited senescence in Escherichia coli
Natasha Blitvić, Vicente I. Fernandez
Recent studies have shown that even in the absence of extrinsic stress, the morphologically symmetrically dividing model bacteria Escherichia coli do not generate offspring with eq…
physics.bio-ph2019
Encounter rates between bacteria and small sinking particles
Jonasz Słomka, Uria Alcolombri, Eleonora Secchi +2
Bacteria in aquatic environments often interact with particulate matter. A key example is bacterial degradation of marine snow responsible for carbon export from the upper ocean in…
math.CO2019
On a Generalized Fibonacci Recurrence
Natasha Blitvić, Vicente I. Fernandez
The generalized Fibonacci recurrence was recently used to demonstrate the theoretically optimal nature of limited senescence in morphologically symmetrically…