Exopolysaccharide production in Caulobacter crescentus: A resource allocation trade-off between protection and proliferation

• Kathryn L. Herr,

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

  Affiliation Department of Biology, Willamette University, Salem, OR, United States of America

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• Alexis M. Carey ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Alexis M. Carey, Taylor I. Heckman, Jessenia Laki Chávez

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

  Affiliation Department of Biology, Willamette University, Salem, OR, United States of America

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• Taylor I. Heckman ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Alexis M. Carey, Taylor I. Heckman, Jessenia Laki Chávez

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

  Affiliation Department of Biology, Willamette University, Salem, OR, United States of America

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• Jessenia Laki Chávez ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Alexis M. Carey, Taylor I. Heckman, Jessenia Laki Chávez

  Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Visualization, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Biology, Willamette University, Salem, OR, United States of America

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• Christina N. Johnson ,

  Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Visualization, Writing – original draft

  ¶‡ These authors also contributed equally to this work.

  Affiliation Department of Biology, Willamette University, Salem, OR, United States of America

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• Emily Harvey ,

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

  ¶‡ These authors also contributed equally to this work.

  Affiliation Department of Biology, Willamette University, Salem, OR, United States of America

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• William A. Gamroth,

  Roles Data curation, Investigation, Visualization

  Affiliation Department of Biology, Willamette University, Salem, OR, United States of America

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• Bridget S. Wulfing,

  Roles Investigation, Methodology

  Affiliation Department of Biology, Willamette University, Salem, OR, United States of America

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• Rachel A. Van Kessel,

  Roles Investigation, Methodology

  Affiliation Department of Biology, Willamette University, Salem, OR, United States of America

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• Melissa E. Marks

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

  * E-mail: memarks@willamette.edu

  Affiliation Department of Biology, Willamette University, Salem, OR, United States of America

  http://orcid.org/0000-0003-2625-6322

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