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    Strain-level diversity drives alternative community types in millimetre-scale granular biofilms

    Microbial communities are often highly diverse in their composition, both at a coarse-grained taxonomic level, such as genus, and at a highly resolved level, such as strains, within species. This variability c...

    Gabriel E. Leventhal, Carles Boix, Urs Kuechler, Tim N. Enke in Nature Microbiology (2018)

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    Microbial interactions lead to rapid micro-scale successions on model marine particles

    In the ocean, organic particles harbour diverse bacterial communities, which collectively digest and recycle essential nutrients. Traits like motility and exo-enzyme production allow individual taxa to coloniz...

    Manoshi S. Datta, Elzbieta Sliwerska, Jeff Gore, Martin F. Polz in Nature Communications (2016)