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Importance of positioning for microbial evolution.

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America - 22 Apr 2014

Kim Wook, Racimo Fernando, Schluter Jonas, Levy Stuart B, Foster Kevin R

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Microbes commonly live in dense surface-attached communities where cells layer on top of one another such that only those at the edges have unimpeded access to limiting nutrients and space. Theory predicts that this simple spatial effect, akin to plants competing for light in a forest, generates strong natural selection on microbial phenotypes. However, we require direct empirical tests of the importance of this...

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PMID: 24715732
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1323632111
PMCID: PMC4000849

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