Numerical investigation of microbial quorum sensing under various flow conditions

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Microbiology

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Introduction

Materials and Methods

Results and Discussion

QS processes of a single microbial aggregate

Empirical approximation of concentration profiles

The effect of QS induced signal production on transport distances

QS induction between spatially distributed multiple microbial aggregates

Conclusions and Perspectives

Additional Information and Declarations

Competing Interests

Christof Meile is an Academic Editor for PeerJ.

Author Contributions

Heewon Jung conceived and designed the experiments, performed the experiments, analyzed the data, prepared figures and/or tables, authored or reviewed drafts of the paper, and approved the final draft.

Christof D. Meile conceived and designed the experiments, authored or reviewed drafts of the paper, and approved the final draft.

Data Availability

The following information was supplied regarding data availability:

The LB code is available at BitBucket: https://bitbucket.org/MeileLab/jung_qsTpDistn.

Funding

This work was supported by the Genomic Sciences Program in the DOE Office of Science, Biological and Environmental Research DE-SC0016469 and DE-SC0020374. The funders had no role in study design, data collection and analysis, decision to publish, or preparation of the manuscript.

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