Microbial cells can cooperate to resist high-level chronic ionizing radiation

• Igor Shuryak ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Igor Shuryak, Vera Y. Matrosova

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

  * E-mail: is144@cumc.columbia.edu

  Affiliation Center for Radiological Research, Columbia University, New York, NY, United States of America

  http://orcid.org/0000-0001-9314-5708

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• Vera Y. Matrosova ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Igor Shuryak, Vera Y. Matrosova

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Investigation, Methodology, Writing – original draft

  Affiliations Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences, School of Medicine, Bethesda, MD, United States of America, Henry M. Jackson Foundation for the Advancement of Military Medicine, Bethesda, MD, United States of America

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• Elena K. Gaidamakova,

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Methodology, Writing – original draft

  Affiliations Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences, School of Medicine, Bethesda, MD, United States of America, Henry M. Jackson Foundation for the Advancement of Military Medicine, Bethesda, MD, United States of America

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• Rok Tkavc,

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Investigation, Methodology, Writing – original draft

  Affiliations Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences, School of Medicine, Bethesda, MD, United States of America, Henry M. Jackson Foundation for the Advancement of Military Medicine, Bethesda, MD, United States of America

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• Olga Grichenko,

  Roles Data curation, Investigation, Methodology, Writing – original draft

  Affiliations Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences, School of Medicine, Bethesda, MD, United States of America, Henry M. Jackson Foundation for the Advancement of Military Medicine, Bethesda, MD, United States of America

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• Polina Klimenkova,

  Roles Data curation, Investigation, Methodology, Writing – original draft

  Affiliations Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences, School of Medicine, Bethesda, MD, United States of America, Henry M. Jackson Foundation for the Advancement of Military Medicine, Bethesda, MD, United States of America

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• Robert P. Volpe,

  Roles Data curation, Investigation, Methodology, Writing – original draft

  Affiliations Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences, School of Medicine, Bethesda, MD, United States of America, Henry M. Jackson Foundation for the Advancement of Military Medicine, Bethesda, MD, United States of America

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• Michael J. Daly

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Investigation, Methodology, Supervision, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences, School of Medicine, Bethesda, MD, United States of America

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