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Cell morphology drives spatial patterning in microbial communities.

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America - 17 Jan 2017

Smith William P J, Davit Yohan, Osborne James M, Kim Wook, Foster Kevin R, Pitt-Francis Joe M

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The clearest phenotypic characteristic of microbial cells is their shape, but we do not understand how cell shape affects the dense communities, known as biofilms, where many microbes live. Here, we use individual-based modeling to systematically vary cell shape and study its impact in simulated communities. We compete cells with different cell morphologies under a range of conditions and ask how shape affects...

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PMID: 28039436
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1613007114
PMCID: PMC5255625

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