Deciphering microbial interactions and detecting keystone species with co-occurrence networks

Frontiers in Microbiology

Volumn 5, Issue MAY, 2014, Pages

  Berry, David ^a   Widder, Stefanie ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF VIENNA   (Austria)

Author keywords

16S rRNA sequencing surveys; Correlation analysis; Habitat filtering; Keystone species; Lotka Volterra models; Microbial competition; Microbial cooperation; Network analysis

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CO OCCURRENCE NETWORK; GENETIC HETEROGENEITY; KEYSTONE SPECIES; MICROBIAL COMMUNITY; MICROBIAL DIVERSITY; MICROBIOLOGICAL PHENOMENA AND FUNCTIONS; NONBIOLOGICAL MODEL; ORGANISMAL INTERACTION; SAMPLING; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SIMULATION;

EID: 84905030166     PISSN: None     EISSN: 1664302X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3389/fmicb.2014.00219     Document Type: Article

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