2 papers
cond-mat.soft2025
Spontaneous spatial sorting by cell shape in growing colonies of rod-like bacteria
Mateusz Ratman, Jimmy Gonzalez Nuñez, Daniel A. Beller
Mechanical interactions among cells in a growing microbial colony can significantly influence the colony's spatial genetic structure and, thus, evolutionary outcomes such as the fa…
q-bio.PE2024
Geometry-Induced Competitive Release in a Meta-Population Model of Range Expansions in Disordered Environments
Jimmy Gonzalez Nuñez, Daniel A. Beller
Rare evolutionary events, such as the rise to prominence of deleterious mutations, can have drastic impacts on the evolution of growing populations. Heterogeneous environments may…