Bacterial communities: Interactions to scale

Frontiers in Microbiology

Volumn 7, Issue AUG, 2016, Pages

  Stubbendieck, Reed M ^a   Vargas Bautista, Carol ^b   Straight, Paul D ^a  

^a TEXAS A AND M UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b TEXAS A AND M UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Bacterial communities; Biodiversity; Competition; Ecology; Interactions; Microbiota; Scaling; Syntrophy

Indexed keywords

BIODIVERSITY; COMPETITION; ECOLOGY; EXPERIMENTAL MODEL; METAGENOMICS; MICROBIAL COMMUNITY; MICROFLORA; NONHUMAN;

EID: 84989162405     PISSN: None     EISSN: 1664302X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3389/fmicb.2016.01234     Document Type: Review

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