Fig. 5
From: Spatial coordination in a mutually beneficial bacterial community enhances its antibiotic resistance
Influence of the distribution or N/R ratio on the bacterial survival rate. a, b Communities exhibit different survival rates based on their initial distributions or N/R ratios. The three rectangles drawn below the histogram represent the three distributions or N/R ratios. The ordinate shows the survival rate of the nutritional bacteria at 3 h (SI, Figs. S8 and 9). Error bars represent standard error of the mean. The asterisk indicates the significance of the difference between the samples in each group. “*” indicates that the P-value of the t-test is <0.05, and “**” indicates that the P-value of the t-test is <0.01. There are more than three replicate samples in each group: natural distribution, n = 4; uniform distribution, n = 5; sawp distribution, n = 3; different N/R ratios, n = 12. c Maps of the nutritional bacterial survival rate under different conditions (different initial distributions, different initial N/R ratios, and different initial ODs) obtained by the simulations
