Fig. 3: Phenotypic predictors of the strength of demographic noise.
From: Mutability of demographic noise in microbial range expansions
Correlation of the bead trajectory MSD for 191 single gene deletions and 41 selected strains with (a) front roughness (defined in Supplementary Methods), (b) colony growth layer depth (defined in Supplementary Methods and Fig. S12c, d), and (c) colony area. Error bars represent the standard error of the mean across 2–3 replicate colonies. d Example colonies for colored points in a–c. e Linear model coefficients for phenotypic traits that best predict MSD, estimated through Lasso regression. f Predicted MSD using the linear model with the coefficients shown in e.
