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. 2008 Dec 19;4(12):e1000242. doi: 10.1371/journal.pcbi.1000242

Figure 9. Model of motility in a porous medium (agar).

Figure 9

A cell encounters traps along its run, and stops in the traps. It stays in the trapped state until the first tumble occurs, then normal run and tumble behavior resumes. The trap positions are not fixed in the 2D space - instead, it is assumed that each cell encounters traps in a series of randomly distributed time intervals.