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The phenomenological theory for the chemotaxis and consumption of oxygen by motile aerobic bacteria is shown to yield a remarkably simple one-dimensional steady-state solution for a congregation of bacteria close to the surface of an oxygen-depleted aqueous medium.
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Rosen, G. Steady-state distribution of bacteria chemotactic toward oxygen. Bltn Mathcal Biology 40, 671–674 (1978). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02460738
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