Collective polarization dynamics in bacterial colonies signify the occurrence of distinct subpopulations

• Marc Hennes ,

  Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Software, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: marc.hennes@uni-koeln.de (MH); berenike.maier@uni-koeln.de (BM)

  Affiliation Institute for Biological Physics, and Center for Molecular Medicine Cologne, University of Cologne, Cologne, Germany

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• Niklas Bender,

  Roles Investigation, Methodology, Visualization

  Affiliation Institute for Biological Physics, and Center for Molecular Medicine Cologne, University of Cologne, Cologne, Germany

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• Tom Cronenberg,

  Roles Investigation, Methodology

  Affiliation Institute for Biological Physics, and Center for Molecular Medicine Cologne, University of Cologne, Cologne, Germany

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• Anton Welker,

  Roles Investigation, Methodology

  Affiliation Institute for Biological Physics, and Center for Molecular Medicine Cologne, University of Cologne, Cologne, Germany

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• Berenike Maier

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

  * E-mail: marc.hennes@uni-koeln.de (MH); berenike.maier@uni-koeln.de (BM)

  Affiliation Institute for Biological Physics, and Center for Molecular Medicine Cologne, University of Cologne, Cologne, Germany

  https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6971-9927

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