Figure 5-2c: Exponential phage adsorption and phage population growth. Panel C: Log10 phage density following 1000-min of phage growth as simulated or calculated at different host densities (the log-scale and log-transformation of the y-axis are both intentional—the number 10^2 represents a phage density of 10^100 phage/ml). Assumed are a latent period of 25 min and burst size of 75 phage/cell, plus an adsorption constant of 2.5 x 10^-9 ml/min. Simulations involve a modeling of exponential phage adsorption (circles) which is equivalent to the Stent-modeled adsorption curves in panel A. For calculations it was assumed that individual free phage adsorb after an extracellular search of 1/kN min (squares) as calculated as a function of host density in panel B.