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 10² represents a phage density of 10¹⁰⁰ 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 note that these circles may not look like circles in figure; they form the upper curve) 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. (for better image quality, click here for tif image, which may be quite large; may also require screen refreshing plus special software to view; or view larger tif in separate window)

Figure 5-1, Figure 5-2a, Figure 5-2b, Figure 5-2c, Figure 5-2d, Figure 5-3 ( a,  b,  c,  d )

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