Chlamydomonas cells swimming away from two competing light beams follow an intensity-weighted average direction, and a broad distribution of eyespot offsets explains why some cells instead commit to one beam and switch stochastically.
Kim, Phototaxis of cyanobacteria under complex light environments, mBio 8, e00498-17 (2017)
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Chlamydomonas cells swimming away from two competing light beams follow an intensity-weighted average direction, and a broad distribution of eyespot offsets explains why some cells instead commit to one beam and switch stochastically.