Use of a Four-Tiered Graph to Parse the Factors Leading to Phenotypic Clustering in Bacteria: A Case Study Based on Samples from the Aletsch Glacier

• Miroslav Svercel ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Miroslav Svercel, Manuela Filippini, Nicolas Perony

  * E-mail: miro.svercel@gmail.com (MS); bagheri@ieu.uzh.ch (HCB)

  Affiliation Institute of Evolutionary Biology and Environmental Studies, University of Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland

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• Manuela Filippini ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Miroslav Svercel, Manuela Filippini, Nicolas Perony

  Affiliation Institute of Evolutionary Biology and Environmental Studies, University of Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland

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• Nicolas Perony ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Miroslav Svercel, Manuela Filippini, Nicolas Perony

  Affiliation Chair of Systems Design, ETH Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland

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• Valentina Rossetti,

  Affiliation Institute of Evolutionary Biology and Environmental Studies, University of Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland

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• Homayoun C. Bagheri

  * E-mail: miro.svercel@gmail.com (MS); bagheri@ieu.uzh.ch (HCB)

  Affiliation Institute of Evolutionary Biology and Environmental Studies, University of Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland

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