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Droplet printing reveals the importance of micron-scale structure for bacterial ecology.
Nature communications - 8 Feb 2021
Krishna Kumar Ravinash, Meiller-Legrand Thomas A, Alcinesio Alessandro, Gonzalez Diego, Mavridou Despoina A I, Meacock Oliver J, Smith William P J, Zhou Linna, Kim Wook, Pulcu Gökçe Su, Bayley Hagan, Foster Kevin R
Abstract excerpt
Bacteria often live in diverse communities where the spatial arrangement of strains and species is considered critical for their ecology. However, a test of this hypothesis requires manipulation at the fine scales at which spatial structure naturally occurs. Here we develop a droplet-based printing method to arrange bacterial genotypes across a sub-millimetre array. We print strains of the gut bacterium...
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