Shared biophysical mechanisms determine early biofilm architecture development across different bacterial species

• Hannah Jeckel ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Hannah Jeckel, Francisco Díaz-Pascual, Dominic J. Skinner, Boya Song

  Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Software, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Biozentrum, University of Basel, Basel, Switzerland, Department of Physics, Philipps-Universität Marburg, Marburg, Germany

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• Francisco Díaz-Pascual ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Hannah Jeckel, Francisco Díaz-Pascual, Dominic J. Skinner, Boya Song

  Roles Data curation, Investigation

  Affiliation Max Planck Institute for Terrestrial Microbiology, Marburg, Germany

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• Dominic J. Skinner ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Hannah Jeckel, Francisco Díaz-Pascual, Dominic J. Skinner, Boya Song

  Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Software, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Mathematics, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States of America

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• Boya Song ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Hannah Jeckel, Francisco Díaz-Pascual, Dominic J. Skinner, Boya Song

  Roles Formal analysis, Methodology, Software, Visualization

  Affiliation Department of Mathematics, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States of America

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• Eva Jiménez-Siebert,

  Roles Data curation, Investigation

  Affiliation Biozentrum, University of Basel, Basel, Switzerland

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• Kerstin Strenger,

  Roles Investigation

  Affiliation Biozentrum, University of Basel, Basel, Switzerland

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• Eric Jelli,

  Roles Investigation, Methodology

  Affiliation Max Planck Institute for Neurobiology of Behavior, Bonn, Germany

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• Sanika Vaidya,

  Roles Investigation, Methodology

  Affiliation Max Planck Institute for Terrestrial Microbiology, Marburg, Germany

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• Jörn Dunkel ,

  Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Project administration, Supervision, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: dunkel@mit.edu (JD); knut.drescher@unibas.ch (KD)

  Affiliation Department of Mathematics, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States of America

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• Knut Drescher

  Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Project administration, Supervision, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: dunkel@mit.edu (JD); knut.drescher@unibas.ch (KD)

  Affiliation Biozentrum, University of Basel, Basel, Switzerland

  https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7340-2444

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