Self-organized canals enable long-range directed material transport in bacterial communities
- Department of Physics and Shenzhen Research Institute, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, China
- School of Medicine, Southern University of Science and Technology, China
- Singapore Center for Environmental Life Science Engineering, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore
Decision letter
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Sigal Ben-YehudaReviewing Editor; Hebrew University, Israel
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Naama BarkaiSenior Editor; Weizmann Institute of Science, Israel
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Decision letter after peer review:
Thank you for submitting your article "Self-organized canals enable long range directed material transport in bacterial communities" for consideration by eLife. We apologize for the delayed response. Your article has been reviewed by 2 peer reviewers, and the evaluation has been overseen by a Reviewing Editor and Naama Barkai as the Senior Editor. The reviewers have opted to remain anonymous.
The reviewers have discussed their reviews with one another, and the Reviewing Editor has drafted this to help you prepare a revised submission.
Essential revisions:
1. Please highlight the shortage of using flagellum mutants and compare your findings with that of P. aeruginosa cells imaged in situ, as indicated by Reviewer #1.
2. Please consider focusing more on the physics of the system and its potential for synthetic systems in the Introduction and Discussion, rather than on multicellularity.
https://doi.org/10.7554/eLife.79780.sa1Author response
Essential revisions:
1. Please highlight the shortage of using flagellum mutants and compare your findings with that of P. aeruginosa cells imaged in situ, as indicated by Reviewer #1.
We have revised the third paragraph of Discussion section to limit the generality of our findings in clinical or ecological settings (lines 441-458). Results of imaging P. aeruginosa cells in situ in sputum samples from cystic fibrosis patients are compared, and the shortage of using flagellum mutants is highlighted.
2. Please consider focusing more on the physics of the system and its potential for synthetic systems in the Introduction and Discussion, rather than on multicellularity.
We have thoroughly revised the Introduction and Discussion according to this comment (revising/adding texts in lines 58-64, 93-99, 429-439; deleting texts related to multicellularity in Introduction/Discussion).
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Self-organized canals enable long-range directed material transport in bacterial communities
eLife 11:e79780.
https://doi.org/10.7554/eLife.79780
