Division of labor, bet hedging, and the evolution of mixed biofilm investment strategies
N. V. Lowery, L. McNally, W. C. Ratcliff, S. P. Brown
This paper investigates why bacterial lineages invest in both fast-growing planktonic and slow-growing biofilm cells, finding that mixed investment is advantageous for environmental resilience.
bioRxiv · Feb 8, 2017Microbiology