Survival of the first rather than the fittest in a Shewanella electrode biofilm

Eric D. Kees; Caleb E. Levar; Stephen P. Miller; Daniel R. Bond; Jeffrey A. Gralnick; Antony M. Dean

Survival of the first rather than the fittest in a Shewanella electrode biofilm

2021

Eric Kees et al. explore whether ecological competition differs between surface-attached biofilms and planktonic culture using two differentially-reproducing strains of Shewanella oneidensis. They observed that, regardless of different growth rates, the first bacterial species to colonize a surface would persist and would not be excluded by a faster growing competitor.

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