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Neither pulled nor pushed: Genetic drift and front wandering uncover a new class of reaction-diffusion waves
Gabriel Birzu, Oskar Hallatschek, Kirill S. Korolev
Traveling waves describe diverse natural phenomena from crystal growth in physics to range expansions in biology. Two classes of waves exist with very different properties: pulled…
Mechanical interactions in bacterial colonies and the surfing probability of beneficial mutations
Fred F. Farrell, Matti Gralka, Oskar Hallatschek +1
Bacterial conglomerates such as biofilms and microcolonies are ubiquitous in nature and play an important role in industry and medicine. In contrast to well-mixed, diluted cultures…
Convection shapes the trade-off between antibiotic efficacy and the selection for resistance in spatial gradients
Matti Gralka, Diana Fusco, Stephen Martis +1
Since penicillin was discovered about 90 years ago, we have become used to using drugs to eradicate unwanted pathogenic cells. However, using drugs to kill bacteria, viruses or can…