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SUBMITTER: Smith WP
PROVIDER: S-EPMC5255625 | biostudies-literature | 2017 Jan
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America 20161230 3
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 the patterning and evolutionary fitness of cells within a community. Our models predic ...[more]