Bacterial surface colonization, preferential attachment and fitness under periodic stress.

Early bacterial surface colonization is not a random process wherein cells arbitrarily attach to surfaces and grow; but rather, attachment events, movement and cellular interactions induce non-random spatial organization. We have only begun to understand how the apparent self-organization affects th...

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Main Authors: Maor Grinberg, Tomer Orevi, Nadav Kashtan
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2019-03-01
Series:PLoS Computational Biology
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pcbi.1006815