Metabolic resource allocation in individual microbes determines ecosystem interactions and spatial dynamics

Cell Reports

Volumn 7, Issue 4, 2014, Pages 1104-1115

  Harcombe, William R ^a,f   Riehl, William J ^b,g   Dukovski, Ilija ^b   Granger, Brian R ^b   Betts, Alex ^a,h   Lang, Alex H ^c   Bonilla, Gracia ^b   Kar, Amrita ^b   Leiby, Nicholas ^a,d   Mehta, Pankaj ^b,c   Marx, Christopher J ^a,e,i   Segrè, Daniel ^b,c  

^a HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b BOSTON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c USA   (United States)

^d HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^e HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^f UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA   (United States)

^g LAWRENCE BERKELEY NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^h UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

ⁱ UNIVERSITY OF IDAHO   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENOME; BACTERIAL GROWTH; BACTERIAL METABOLISM; BACTERIUM COLONY; COMPETITOR SPECIES; ECOSYSTEM; ESCHERICHIA COLI; FEEDING BEHAVIOR; METHYLOBACTERIUM EXTORQUENS; MICROBIAL COMMUNITY; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SALMONELLA ENTERICA; STOICHIOMETRY; SYMBIOSIS; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; MICROFLORA; PHYSIOLOGY; SPATIAL BEHAVIOR; SPATIOTEMPORAL ANALYSIS; CELL METABOLISM; CLASSIFICATION ALGORITHM; CONCEPTUAL FRAMEWORK; CONTROLLED STUDY; MATHEMATICAL COMPUTING; METABOLIC BALANCE; METABOLIC FLUX ANALYSIS; POPULATION DENSITY; PROCESS MODEL;

ECOSYSTEM; MICROBIOTA; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; SPATIAL BEHAVIOR; SPATIO-TEMPORAL ANALYSIS;

EID: 84901273253     PISSN: None     EISSN: 22111247     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.celrep.2014.03.070     Document Type: Article

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