Droplet printing reveals the importance of micron-scale structure for bacterial ecology
R. Krishna Kumar, T. Meiller-Legrand, A. Alcinesio, D. Gonzalez, D. A. I. Mavridou, O. J. Meacock, W. P. J. Smith, L. Zhou, W. Kim, G. S. Pulcu, H. Bayley, K. R. Foster
The paper develops a droplet printing method to study bacterial ecology by manipulating spatial arrangements of E. coli strains and shows how micron-scale structure affects competition and coexistence.
bioRxiv · Oct 20, 2020Microbiology