"Our most common competitor is really a spreadsheet, or more likely, dozens of spreadsheets with customer names on them," he says.
On the one hand, the two companies share an investor, the Japanese e-commerce giant Rakuten; and they also share a common competitor, the ridesharing behemoth Uber, and tying up their services, so that their loyal customers do not revert to using Uber when travelling, makes a lot of sense, since once they start they might simply jump to Uber when back home, too.
Second, since all aptamers are polyanions, another polyanion at high concentration, such as dextran sulfate, can serve as a common competitor that dramatically minimizes rebinding events in a multiplex assay.
The growth rates were determined against a common competitor in isolated cultures.
However, an Ara+ variant of the ancestor has been generated, and it has previously served as the common competitor for samples from the evolving Ara-1 population.
Similarly, two shops may be connected to one another through a mutual intermediary, but might be unaware that they are identifying a common competitor.
The mean ln W of clone B1 was determined to be significantly lower than 0.0 (t-test with t = −12.83, df = 5, P <0.001), indicating that clone B1 was less fit on ERA than the common competitor.
The mean ln W of the ancestral clone A1 was determined to be significantly greater than 0.0 (t-test with t = 11.71, df = 5, P <0.001), indicating that the ancestor was more fit on PP than the common competitor.
Thus, for all 32 sequenced viruses we conducted fitness assays on PP against a genetically-marked common competitor that contained a host-range mutation on segment M, and an inserted X-gal mutation on segment L (see Methods).
