From metabolism to ecology: Cross-feeding interactions shape the balance between polymicrobial conflict and mutualism

American Naturalist

Volumn 180, Issue 5, 2012, Pages 566-576

  Estrela, Sylvie ^a   Trisos, Christopher H ^b   Brown, Sam P ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Cross feeding; Metabolism; Microbial ecology; Modeling; Mutualism

Indexed keywords

COMMENSALISM; DEMOGRAPHY; INTERSPECIFIC COMPETITION; METABOLISM; METABOLITE; MICROBIAL COMMUNITY; MICROBIAL ECOLOGY; MUTUALISM; TOXICITY;

ARTICLE; BACTERIUM; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; ECOLOGY; HUMAN; METABOLISM; ORGANISMAL INTERACTION; PHYSIOLOGY; SYMBIOSIS;

BACTERIA; ECOLOGY; HUMANS; MICROBIAL INTERACTIONS; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; SYMBIOSIS;

EID: 84867709297     PISSN: 00030147     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1086/667887     Document Type: Article

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