Density-dependent effects are the main determinants of variation in growth dynamics between closely related bacterial strains

• Sabrin Hilau,

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

  Affiliations Department of Physiology, Biophysics and Systems Biology, the Ruth and Bruce Rappaport Faculty of Medicine, Technion-Israel Institute of Technology, Haifa, Israel, Rachel & Menachem Mendelovitch Evolutionary Processes of Mutation & Natural Selection Research Laboratory, Department of Genetics and Developmental Biology, the Ruth and Bruce Rappaport Faculty of Medicine, Technion-Israel Institute of Technology, Haifa, Israel

  https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8573-7703

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• Sophia Katz,

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration

  Affiliation Rachel & Menachem Mendelovitch Evolutionary Processes of Mutation & Natural Selection Research Laboratory, Department of Genetics and Developmental Biology, the Ruth and Bruce Rappaport Faculty of Medicine, Technion-Israel Institute of Technology, Haifa, Israel

  https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9114-2466

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• Tanya Wasserman,

  Roles Data curation, Project administration, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Physiology, Biophysics and Systems Biology, the Ruth and Bruce Rappaport Faculty of Medicine, Technion-Israel Institute of Technology, Haifa, Israel

  https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0221-1891

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• Ruth Hershberg,

  Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Resources, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Rachel & Menachem Mendelovitch Evolutionary Processes of Mutation & Natural Selection Research Laboratory, Department of Genetics and Developmental Biology, the Ruth and Bruce Rappaport Faculty of Medicine, Technion-Israel Institute of Technology, Haifa, Israel

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• Yonatan Savir

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

  * E-mail: yoni.savir@technion.ac.il

  Affiliation Department of Physiology, Biophysics and Systems Biology, the Ruth and Bruce Rappaport Faculty of Medicine, Technion-Israel Institute of Technology, Haifa, Israel

  https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5345-8491

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