T cell migration, search strategies and mechanisms

MF Krummel, F Bartumeus, A Gérard - Nature Reviews Immunology, 2016 - nature.com
T cell migration is essential for T cell responses; it allows for the detection of cognate antigen
at the surface of antigen-presenting cells and for interactions with other cells involved in the …

Understanding movements of organisms: it's time to abandon the Lévy foraging hypothesis

GH Pyke - Methods in Ecology and Evolution, 2015 - Wiley Online Library
Interest in L évy walks within the context of movement of organisms has recently soared, with
some now referring to this approach as the L évy walk/flight paradigm. The principal …

Pattern formation at multiple spatial scales drives the resilience of mussel bed ecosystems

QX Liu, PMJ Herman, WM Mooij, J Huisman… - Nature …, 2014 - nature.com
Self-organized complexity at multiple spatial scales is a distinctive characteristic of biological
systems. Yet, little is known about how different self-organizing processes operating at …

Foraging success under uncertainty: search tradeoffs and optimal space use

F Bartumeus, D Campos, WS Ryu… - Ecology …, 2016 - Wiley Online Library
Understanding the structural complexity and the main drivers of animal search behaviour is
pivotal to foraging ecology. Yet, the role of uncertainty as a generative mechanism of …

Spatial organization of phase-separated DNA droplets

S Wilken, A Chaderjian, OA Saleh - Physical Review X, 2023 - APS
Many recent studies of liquid-liquid phase separation in biology focus on phase separation
as a dynamic control mechanism for cellular function, but it can also result in complex …

The evolutionary origins of Lévy walk foraging

ME Wosniack, MC Santos, EP Raposo… - PLoS computational …, 2017 - journals.plos.org
We study through a reaction-diffusion algorithm the influence of landscape diversity on the
efficiency of search dynamics. Remarkably, the identical optimal search strategy arises in a …

Hierarchical random walks in trace fossils and the origin of optimal search behavior

DW Sims, AM Reynolds… - Proceedings of the …, 2014 - National Acad Sciences
Efficient searching is crucial for timely location of food and other resources. Recent studies
show that diverse living animals use a theoretically optimal scale-free random search for …

Optimal searching behaviour generated intrinsically by the central pattern generator for locomotion

DW Sims, NE Humphries, N Hu, V Medan, J Berni - Elife, 2019 - elifesciences.org
Efficient searching for resources such as food by animals is key to their survival. It has been
proposed that diverse animals from insects to sharks and humans adopt searching patterns …

Optimal foraging strategies: Lévy walks balance searching and patch exploitation under a very broad range of conditions

NE Humphries, DW Sims - Journal of theoretical biology, 2014 - Elsevier
While evidence for optimal random search patterns, known as Lévy walks, in empirical
movement data is mounting for a growing list of taxa spanning motile cells to humans, there …

Behavioral self-organization underlies the resilience of a coastal ecosystem

H De Paoli, T Van Der Heide… - Proceedings of the …, 2017 - National Acad Sciences
Self-organized spatial patterns occur in many terrestrial, aquatic, and marine ecosystems.
Theoretical models and observational studies suggest self-organization, the formation of …