Metabolic and Demographic Feedbacks Shape the Emergent Spatial Structure and Function of Microbial Communities

PLoS Computational Biology

Volumn 9, Issue 12, 2013, Pages

  Estrela, Sylvie ^a   Brown, Sam P ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

METABOLISM; MICROORGANISMS; MIXING; POPULATION STATISTICS;

ECOLOGICAL INTERACTIONS; FUNCTIONAL RELATIONSHIP; FUNCTIONAL SPECIES; INTERACTION FUNCTIONAL; METABOLIC INTERACTIONS; MICROBIAL CELLS; MICROBIAL COMMUNITIES; SPATIAL FUNCTIONS; SPATIAL STRUCTURE; STRUCTURAL RELATIONSHIP;

DETOXIFICATION;

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL CELL; BIOFILM; CELL GROWTH; CELL LINEAGE; CELL MOTION; COCULTURE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEMOGRAPHY; DETOXIFICATION; FERTILITY; GENE SEGREGATION; MICROBIAL COMMUNITY; MONOCULTURE; NONHUMAN; PLANKTON; SYMBIOSIS;

FEEDBACK; MICROBIOTA; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL;

EID: 84892741486     PISSN: 1553734X     EISSN: 15537358     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pcbi.1003398     Document Type: Article

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