Formation of phage lysis patterns and implications on co-propagation of phages and motile host bacteria

• Xiaochu Li ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Xiaochu Li, Floricel Gonzalez

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

  Affiliations Department of Biological Sciences, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, Blacksburg, Virginia, United States of America, BIOTRANS Graduate Program, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, Blacksburg, Virginia, United States of America

  http://orcid.org/0000-0002-5761-5001

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• Floricel Gonzalez ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Xiaochu Li, Floricel Gonzalez

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

  Affiliation Department of Biological Sciences, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, Blacksburg, Virginia, United States of America

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• Nathaniel Esteves,

  Roles Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology

  Affiliation Department of Biological Sciences, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, Blacksburg, Virginia, United States of America

  http://orcid.org/0000-0002-0801-5376

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• Birgit E. Scharf ,

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

  * E-mail: bscharf@vt.edu (BES); chenjing@vt.edu (JC)

  Affiliations Department of Biological Sciences, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, Blacksburg, Virginia, United States of America, Fralin Life Sciences Institute, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, Blacksburg, Virginia, United States of America

  http://orcid.org/0000-0001-6271-8972

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• Jing Chen

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

  * E-mail: bscharf@vt.edu (BES); chenjing@vt.edu (JC)

  Affiliations Department of Biological Sciences, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, Blacksburg, Virginia, United States of America, Fralin Life Sciences Institute, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, Blacksburg, Virginia, United States of America

  http://orcid.org/0000-0001-6321-0505

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