Emergent spatial structure in the gut microbiota is driven by bacterial growth and gut contractions
Giorgia Greter, Sebastian Hummel, Daria Künzli, Naomi Duenki, Niina Ruoho, Patricia Burkhardt, Suwannee Ganguillet, Milad Radiom, Claudia Moresi, Leanid Laganenka, Wolf‐Dietrich Hardt, Steffen Geisel, Julien Bauland, Sebastian Bruno Ulrich Jordi, Benjamin Misselwitz, , Markus Arnoldini
The paper shows how spatial structure in the gut microbiota emerges through bacterial growth in the matrix of gut content.
PLoS Biology · Apr 24, 2026Peer-reviewedSystems Biology