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Research partially supported by the Emory University Research Fund
Research partially supported by the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft
Research supported by NSF grants MCS-8401746 and DMS-8601398
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Jäger, W., So, J.W.H., Tang, B. et al. Competition in the gradostat. J. Math. Biology 25, 23–42 (1987). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00275886
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