The bacterial chemotactic response reflects a compromise between transient and steady-state behavior

Clark and Grant, 10.1073/pnas.0407659102.

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Fig. 5. Using the same parameters as in Fig. 3d, we show the results on different length scale gradients. Such gradients with reflective boundary conditions can also be thought of as infinite triangle waves, a more natural picture than a box. Black points are simulations of bacteria in a box of total length 4, gray points are in a box of length 8, and white points are in a box of length 80. The dotted curve shows the performance kernel for in the case where the bacterium assumes a linear gradient throughout its entire history (an infinite gradient). The solid curve is the performance kernel that makes minimal assumptions about the extent of the linear gradient.