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ArticleNature2019

An evolutionarily stable strategy to colonize spatially extended habitats.

Weirong Liu, Jonas Cremer, Dengjin Li, Terence Hwa, Chenli Liu

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Article in Nature, 2019. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 35 papers.

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35citing papers in PubMed
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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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2 · The registry

The trial behind it

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

35 citing papers in PubMed.

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  11. Direct measurement of dynamic attractant gradients reveals breakdown of the Patlak-Keller-Segel chemotaxis model.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2024
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  18. Coordination of gene expression with cell size enablesProceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2022
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  20. The ecological roles of bacterial chemotaxis.Nature reviews. Microbiology · 2022
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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

5 authors.

Weirong Liu *CAS Key Laboratory of Quantitative Engineering Biology, Shenzhen Institute of Synthetic Biology, Shenzhen Institutes of Advanced Technology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Shenzhen, People's Republic of China.
Jonas Cremer *Department of Physics, University of California San Diego, La Jolla, CA, USA.
Dengjin LiCAS Key Laboratory of Quantitative Engineering Biology, Shenzhen Institute of Synthetic Biology, Shenzhen Institutes of Advanced Technology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Shenzhen, People's Republic of China.
Terence HwaDepartment of Physics, University of California San Diego, La Jolla, CA, USA. hwa@ucsd.edu.
Chenli LiuCAS Key Laboratory of Quantitative Engineering Biology, Shenzhen Institute of Synthetic Biology, Shenzhen Institutes of Advanced Technology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Shenzhen, People's Republic of China. cl.liu@siat.ac.cn.

Funding

Quantitative Studies of Bacterial Growth PhysiologyR01GM095903 · NIGMS · UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, SAN DIEGO · PI HWA, TERENCE · 2011 to 2023
$3.8M
NIGMS NIH HHS R01 GM095903
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

The ability of a species to colonize newly available habitats is crucial to its overall fitness

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ChemotaxisEcosystemBiological EvolutionEscherichia coliPopulation Growth

Identifiers

PMID31695198
PMCPMC6883132

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