Role of bacterial persistence in spatial population expansion.

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Bacterial persistence, tolerance to antibiotics via stochastic phenotype switching, provides a survival strategy and a fitness advantage in temporally fluctuating environments. Here we study its possible benefit in spatially varying environments using a Fisher wave approach. We study the spatial expansion of a population with stochastic switching between two phenotypes in spatially homogeneous conditions and in...

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