Optimal Strategy for Competence Differentiation in Bacteria

• C. Scott Wylie ,

  * E-mail: wylie@fas.harvard.edu

  Current address: Department of Chemistry and Chemical Biology, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States of America

  Affiliation Center For Theoretical Biological Physics, University of California San Diego, La Jolla, California, United States of America

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• Aaron D. Trout,

  Affiliation Department of Mathematics, Chatham University, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States of America

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• David A. Kessler,

  Affiliation Department of Physics, Bar-Ilan University, Ramat-Gan, Israel

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• Herbert Levine

  Affiliation Center For Theoretical Biological Physics, University of California San Diego, La Jolla, California, United States of America

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