Fig. 3: The distribution of speeds in the two (wet and dry) cases.
From: Immobility of isolated swarmer cells due to local liquid depletion
a Data presented for all speeds. Differences are mostly apparent at small speeds. b Data shown for speeds larger than 7 μm/s suggest similar distributions with Gaussian tails. c, d The average instantaneous speed of individual cells as a function of the number of their neighbors up to a cutoff distance “max distance”, (c) for the wet and (d) dry cases. Cells that do not have any close neighboring cells do not move. Then, the average speed increases with the number of neighbors up to a maximum of approximately 20 μm/s.
