{"database":"biostudies-literature","file_versions":[],"scores":null,"additional":{"omics_type":["Unknown"],"volume":["16(1)"],"submitter":["Gallardo-Navarro O"],"funding":["Minerva Foundation"],"pubmed_abstract":["Active matter, from motile bacteria to animals, can exhibit striking collective and coherent behavior. Despite significant advances in understanding the behavior of homogeneous systems, little is known about the self-organization and dynamics of heterogeneous active matter, such as complex and diverse bacterial communities. Under oxygen gradients, many bacterial species swim towards air-liquid interfaces in auto-organized, directional bioconvective flows, whose spatial scales exceed the cell size by orders of magnitude. Here we show that multispecies bacterial suspensions undergoing oxytactic-driven bioconvection exhibit dynamically driven spatial segregation, despite the enhanced mixing of bioconvective flows, and the fact that these species coexist in their natural habitat. Segregation i"],"journal":["Nature communications"],"pagination":["950"],"full_dataset_link":["https://www.ebi.ac.uk/biostudies/studies/S-EPMC11754595"],"repository":["biostudies-literature"],"pubmed_title":["Dynamically induced spatial segregation in multispecies bacterial bioconvection."],"pmcid":["PMC11754595"],"pubmed_authors":["Stavans J","Arbel-Goren R","August E","Gallardo-Navarro O","Olmedo-Alvarez G"],"additional_accession":[]},"is_claimable":false,"name":"Dynamically induced spatial segregation in multispecies bacterial bioconvection.","description":"Active matter, from motile bacteria to animals, can exhibit striking collective and coherent behavior. Despite significant advances in understanding the behavior of homogeneous systems, little is known about the self-organization and dynamics of heterogeneous active matter, such as complex and diverse bacterial communities. Under oxygen gradients, many bacterial species swim towards air-liquid interfaces in auto-organized, directional bioconvective flows, whose spatial scales exceed the cell size by orders of magnitude. Here we show that multispecies bacterial suspensions undergoing oxytactic-driven bioconvection exhibit dynamically driven spatial segregation, despite the enhanced mixing of bioconvective flows, and the fact that these species coexist in their natural habitat. Segregation i","dates":{"release":"2025-01-01T00:00:00Z","publication":"2025 Jan","modification":"2025-04-21T23:53:40.882Z","creation":"2025-04-05T19:23:47.083Z"},"accession":"S-EPMC11754595","cross_references":{"pubmed":["39843893"],"doi":["10.1038/s41467-025-56244-8"]}}