Robustness of a model microbial community emerges from population structure among single cells of a clonal population

Environmental Microbiology

Volumn 19, Issue 8, 2017, Pages 3059-3069

  Thompson, Anne W ^a,c   Turkarslan, Serdar ^a   Arens, Christina E ^a   López García de Lomana, Adrián ^a   Raman, Arjun V ^a   Stahl, David A ^b   Baliga, Nitin S ^a  

^a INSTITUTE FOR SYSTEMS BIOLOGY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

^c PORTLAND STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

SULFATE;

DESULFOVIBRIO VULGARIS; ENERGY METABOLISM; GENETICS; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; METABOLISM; METHANOCOCCUS; MICROBIAL CONSORTIUM; ORGANISMAL INTERACTION; OXIDATION REDUCTION REACTION; PHYSIOLOGY;

DESULFOVIBRIO VULGARIS; ENERGY METABOLISM; METHANOCOCCUS; MICROBIAL CONSORTIA; MICROBIAL INTERACTIONS; OXIDATION-REDUCTION; SULFATES;

EID: 85019720806     PISSN: 14622912     EISSN: 14622920     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/1462-2920.13764     Document Type: Article

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