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Genetic drift opposes mutualism during spatial population expansion
Melanie JI Muller, Beverly I Neugeboren, David R Nelson +1
Mutualistic interactions benefit both partners, promoting coexistence and genetic diversity. Spatial structure can promote cooperation, but spatial expansions may also make it hard…
Selective sweeps in growing microbial colonies
Kirill S Korolev, Melanie J I Müller, Nilay Karahan +3
Evolutionary experiments with microbes are a powerful tool to study mutations and natural selection. These experiments, however, are often limited to the well-mixed environments of…
Supplementary information for "Selective sweeps in growing microbial colonies"
Kirill S Korolev, Melanie J I Müller, Nilay Karahan +3
This is supplementary information for arXiv:1204.4896, which also appeared in Physical Biology 9, 026008 (2012). Main text abstract: Evolutionary experiments with microbes are a po…