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Volume of water explored by a microbe randomly swimming at 50 µm/s

Range	0.5 µl (a ~0.8mm cube) of new water every 10 min and 0.8 ml (a ~1 cm cube) every day
Organism	Microbes
Reference	Stocker R. Marine microbes see a sea of gradients. Science. 2012 Nov 2 338(6107):628-33. doi: 10.1126/science.1208929. p.628 middle column 3rd paragraphPubMed ID23118182
Comments	"In contrast [to non-motile microbe, BNID 110352], the microenvironment of a swimming bacterium is largely defined by its motility range. One can calculate that randomly swimming at 50µm/s enables a bacterium to experience 0.5µl (a ~0.8-mm cube) of new water every 10 min and 0.8 ml (a ~1 cm cube) every day."
Entered by	Uri M
ID	110353