Figure 9

Properties of cell agents. A) Description of the algorithm carried out by the agents at each time point. At 'STOP', the cells irreversibly enter a metabolically inactive stationary state. The functions depend on the state of activation of each mutant and these are regulated in a threshold-based manner by the signal levels. B) Energy balance of the various mutants studied. The numerical values are shown in Table 1 and described in the Additional file 1. "Swarming state" includes two states (with S production "on" [swarming level] or "off" [solitary level]) (Table 1).