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Modern microbiology has as one of its sacred cows the pursuit of the homogeneity paradigm. This, roughly speaking, implies that respectable research uses well mixed liquid cultures preferably operating under steady state conditions. Fortunately there are signs that this attitude is beginning to change, for natural ecosystems are seldom homogeneous and operate in the short term at far from steady state conditions. Life for the “heterogeneous” microbiologist is infinitely richer and more satisfying once one starts to appreciate the regularity and order that is possible in a spatially ordered three dimensional environment.
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Wimpenny, J.W.T., Jaffe, S., Coombs, J.P. (1984). Periodic Growth Phenomena in Spatially Organized Microbial Systems. In: Jäger, W., Murray, J.D. (eds) Modelling of Patterns in Space and Time. Lecture Notes in Biomathematics, vol 55. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-45589-6_30
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