Formation, collective motion, and merging of macroscopic bacterial aggregates

• George Courcoubetis,

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

  Affiliation Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, California, United States of America

  https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8622-6251

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• Manasi S. Gangan,

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

  Affiliation Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, California, United States of America

  https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7162-2892

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• Sean Lim,

  Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Investigation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, California, United States of America

  https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3190-0821

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• Xiaokan Guo,

  Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Investigation

  Affiliation Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, California, United States of America

  https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1975-7957

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• Stephan Haas,

  Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Project administration, Supervision, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, California, United States of America

  https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4826-7188

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• James Q. Boedicker

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Project administration, Supervision, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: boedicke@usc.edu

  Affiliations Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, California, United States of America, Department of Biological Sciences, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, California, United States of America

  https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4107-3719

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