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The paper shows that minimizing co-growth between species predicts community robustness across different ecological models.

The paper studies bacterial iron acquisition under low carbon conditions and finds that amino acids facilitate iron uptake by E. coli.

The paper examines how resource competition between chitin degraders and GlcNAc exploiters influences community viability and growth dynamics through factors like GlcNAc liberation rates and diffusive loss.

This study shows that bacterial colony expansion is driven by mechanical constraints and nutrient gradients, with cell death occurring in a distinct zone due to glucose depletion and anaerobiosis.

This study links DnaA activity oscillations to DNA replication initiation in E. coli, showing they persist independently of dnaA expression and proposing an extrusion model for regulation.

This paper introduces a model to study microbial community dynamics by focusing on physiological state transitions rather than fixed interactions, identifying key features of dynamic coexistence.

This study shows that UDP-glucose-4-epimerase is required for aggregation and exopolymer production in marine bacteria Alteromonas spp., highlighting their role in particulate organic matter aggregation.

The paper introduces a framework to quantify metabolic function contributions and protein allocation in E. coli, revealing energy balance and enzyme-flux relationships.

This study quantifies how gene regulation in E. coli connects DNA to RNA and proteins under growth condition changes, revealing two principles governing protein allocation.

The paper shows that ppGpp in E. coli inversely responds to translational elongation rate, enabling growth rate perception and control through a regulatory circuit.