Pleiotropic hubs drive bacterial surface competition through parallel changes in colony composition and expansion

• Jordi van Gestel ,

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Software, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: jordivangestel@gmail.com

  Affiliations Department of Evolutionary Biology and Environmental Studies, University of Zürich, Zürich, Switzerland, Swiss Institute of Bioinformatics, Lausanne, Switzerland, Department of Environmental Systems Science, ETH Zürich, Zürich, Switzerland, Department of Environmental Microbiology, Swiss Federal Institute of Aquatic Science and Technology (Eawag), Dübendorf, Switzerland, Department of Microbiology and Immunology, University of California, San Francisco, San Francisco, California, United States of America, Developmental Biology Unit, European Molecular Biology Laboratory, Heidelberg, Germany

  https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5598-5239

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• Andreas Wagner,

  Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Department of Evolutionary Biology and Environmental Studies, University of Zürich, Zürich, Switzerland, Swiss Institute of Bioinformatics, Lausanne, Switzerland, The Santa Fe Institute, Santa Fe, New Mexico, United States of America, Stellenbosch Institute for Advanced Study (STIAS), Wallenberg Research Centre at Stellenbosch University, Stellenbosch, South Africa

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• Martin Ackermann

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

  Affiliations Department of Environmental Systems Science, ETH Zürich, Zürich, Switzerland, Department of Environmental Microbiology, Swiss Federal Institute of Aquatic Science and Technology (Eawag), Dübendorf, Switzerland

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