Before revision:  Doing so permits us to study in detail how gradient sensing changes as a function of the structure of the communication term. The key findings of this study are, an accounting of how gradient sensing is affected by the competition of communication and diffusive processes; the determination of the scale dependence of the model outcomes;
After revision:  Doing so permits us to study in detail how gradient sensing changes as a function of the structure of the communication itself, cell size, and the scale dependence of the model outcomes;