Evolutionary BiologybioRxiv
Impact of crowding on the diversity of expanding populations
C. F. Schreck, D. Fusco, Y. Karita…·O. Hallatschek
The paper quantifies how crowding affects genetic diversity in expanding microbial populations by showing a power-law distribution of low-frequency clones due to volume-exclusion interactions.
DOI 10.1073/pnas.2208361120