Nature Communications (Dec 2018)

Migration alters oscillatory dynamics and promotes survival in connected bacterial populations

  • Shreyas Gokhale,
  • Arolyn Conwill,
  • Tanvi Ranjan,
  • Jeff Gore

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-018-07703-y
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 9, no. 1
pp. 1 – 10

Abstract

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Migration can increase survival of a metapopulation by enabling recolonization after local extinction. Here, Gokhale et al. use both microbial experiments and mechanistic modeling to show that moderate levels of migration can increase survival by altering oscillatory population dynamics.