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Metabolic exchanges are ubiquitous in natural microbial communities
Microbial communities drive global biogeochemical cycles and shape the health of plants and animals—including humans. Their structure and function are determined by ecological and environmental interactions th...
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Complexity–stability trade-off in empirical microbial ecosystems
May’s stability theory, which holds that large ecosystems can be stable up to a critical level of complexity, a product of the number of resident species and the intensity of their interactions, has been a cen...
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Core gut microbial communities are maintained by beneficial interactions and strain variability in fish
The term core microbiome describes microbes that are consistently present in a particular habitat. If the conditions in that habitat are highly variable, core microbes may also be considered to be ecological g...
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Community structure follows simple assembly rules in microbial microcosms
Microorganisms typically form diverse communities of interacting species, whose activities have tremendous impact on the plants, animals and humans they associate with. The ability to predict the structure of ...
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Surveys, simulation and single-cell assays relate function and phylogeny in a lake ecosystem
Much remains unknown about what drives microbial community structure and diversity. Highly structured environments might offer clues. For example, it may be possible to identify metabolically similar species a...
