Is it selfish to be filamentous in biofilms? Individual-based modeling links microbial growth strategies with morphology using the new and modular iDynoMiCS 2.0

• Bastiaan J. R. Cockx ,

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

  * E-mail: baco@dtu.dk (BJRC); j.kreft@bham.ac.uk (J-UK)

  Affiliation Department of Environmental and Resource Engineering, Technical University of Demark, DTU Lyngby campus, Kgs. Lyngby, Denmark

  https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3751-0771

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• Tim Foster,

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

  Affiliation Centre for Computational Biology & Institute of Microbiology and Infection & School of Biosciences, University of Birmingham, Edgbaston, Birmingham, United Kingdom

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• Robert J. Clegg,

  Roles Conceptualization, Methodology, Software, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Centre for Computational Biology & Institute of Microbiology and Infection & School of Biosciences, University of Birmingham, Edgbaston, Birmingham, United Kingdom

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• Kieran Alden,

  Roles Software, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Centre for Computational Biology & Institute of Microbiology and Infection & School of Biosciences, University of Birmingham, Edgbaston, Birmingham, United Kingdom

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• Sankalp Arya,

  Roles Investigation, Methodology, Software, Validation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation School of Biosciences, University of Nottingham, Sutton Bonington Campus, Loughborough, Leicestershire, United Kingdom

  https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9081-1485

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• Dov J. Stekel,

  Roles Supervision, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation School of Biosciences, University of Nottingham, Sutton Bonington Campus, Loughborough, Leicestershire, United Kingdom

  https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2492-8079

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• Barth F. Smets,

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

  Affiliation Department of Environmental and Resource Engineering, Technical University of Demark, DTU Lyngby campus, Kgs. Lyngby, Denmark

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• Jan-Ulrich Kreft

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

  * E-mail: baco@dtu.dk (BJRC); j.kreft@bham.ac.uk (J-UK)

  Affiliation Centre for Computational Biology & Institute of Microbiology and Infection & School of Biosciences, University of Birmingham, Edgbaston, Birmingham, United Kingdom

  https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2351-224X

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