Microbial interactions: From networks to models

Nature Reviews Microbiology

Volumn 10, Issue 8, 2012, Pages 538-550

  Faust, Karoline ^a,b   Raes, Jeroen ^a,b  

^a DEPARTMENT OF PLANT SYSTEMS BIOLOGY   (Belgium)

^b VRIJE UNIVERSITEIT BRUSSEL   (Belgium)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

RNA 16S;

BACTERIUM CULTURE; COMMUNITY STRUCTURE; COMPETITION; DYNAMICS; ECOSYSTEM; ESCHERICHIA COLI; HOST PATHOGEN INTERACTION; HUMAN; METAGENOMICS; MICROBIAL COMMUNITY; MICROBIAL GROWTH; MICROBIOME; MODEL; NONHUMAN; PHYLOGENY; POPULATION ABUNDANCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PYROSEQUENCING; REVIEW; SALMONELLA ENTERICA; SALMONELLA TYPHIMURIUM; SOIL MICROFLORA; SPECIES DISTRIBUTION; SPECIES HABITAT;

BIOTA; HUMANS; METAGENOMICS; MICROBIAL INTERACTIONS;

EID: 84863920287     PISSN: 17401526     EISSN: 17401534     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nrmicro2832     Document Type: Review

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