Reply to Baveye and Darnault: Useful models are simple and extendable

Katharine Z Coyte^{1

2

3

4}, Hervé Tabuteau⁵, Eamonn A Gaffney², Kevin R Foster^{6

3}, William M Durham^{6

7}

Affiliations

¹ Department of Zoology, University of Oxford, Oxford OX1 3PS, United Kingdom.
² Wolfson Centre for Mathematical Biology, University of Oxford, Oxford OX2 6GG, United Kingdom.
³ Oxford Centre for Integrative Systems Biology, University of Oxford, Oxford OX1 3QU, United Kingdom.
⁴ Computational Biology, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, New York, NY 10065.
⁵ Institut de Physique de Rennes, Université de Rennes 1, 35042 Rennes, France.
⁶ Department of Zoology, University of Oxford, Oxford OX1 3PS, United Kingdom; kevin.foster@zoo.ox.ac.uk w.m.durham@sheffield.ac.uk.
⁷ Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Sheffield, Sheffield S3 7RH, United Kingdom.

Comment

Katharine Z Coyte et al. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2017.

. 2017 Apr 4;114(14):E2804-E2805.

doi: 10.1073/pnas.1702303114. Epub 2017 Mar 24.

Katharine Z Coyte^{1

2

3

4}, Hervé Tabuteau⁵, Eamonn A Gaffney², Kevin R Foster^{6

3}, William M Durham^{6

7}

¹ Department of Zoology, University of Oxford, Oxford OX1 3PS, United Kingdom.
² Wolfson Centre for Mathematical Biology, University of Oxford, Oxford OX2 6GG, United Kingdom.
³ Oxford Centre for Integrative Systems Biology, University of Oxford, Oxford OX1 3QU, United Kingdom.
⁴ Computational Biology, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, New York, NY 10065.
⁵ Institut de Physique de Rennes, Université de Rennes 1, 35042 Rennes, France.
⁶ Department of Zoology, University of Oxford, Oxford OX1 3PS, United Kingdom; kevin.foster@zoo.ox.ac.uk w.m.durham@sheffield.ac.uk.
⁷ Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Sheffield, Sheffield S3 7RH, United Kingdom.

No abstract available

Conflict of interest statement

The authors declare no conflict of interest.

Microbial competition in porous environments can select against rapid biofilm growth.
Coyte KZ, Tabuteau H, Gaffney EA, Foster KR, Durham WM. Coyte KZ, et al. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2017 Jan 10;114(2):E161-E170. doi: 10.1073/pnas.1525228113. Epub 2016 Dec 22. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2017. PMID: 28007984 Free PMC article.
Microbial competition and evolution in natural porous environments: Not that simple.
Baveye PC, Darnault C. Baveye PC, et al. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2017 Apr 4;114(14):E2802-E2803. doi: 10.1073/pnas.1700992114. Epub 2017 Mar 24. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2017. PMID: 28341813 Free PMC article. No abstract available.

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