Balance trees reveal microbial niche differentiation

mSystems

Volumn 2, Issue 1, 2017, Pages

  Morton, James T ^a,b   Sanders, Jon ^a   Quinn, Robert A ^c,d   McDonald, Daniel ^b   Gonzalez, Antonio ^b   Vázquez Baeza, Yoshiki ^a,b   Navas Molina, Jose A ^a,b   Song, Se Jin ^a   Metcalf, Jessica L ^c,d   Hyde, Embriette R ^b   Lladser, Manuel ^e   Dorrestein, Pieter C ^f   Knight, Rob ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA SAN DIEGO   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA SAN DIEGO   (United States)

^d Department of Ecosystem Science and Sustainability   (United States)

^e UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

^f UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Aitchison geometry; Balance trees; Compositionality; Cystic fibrosis; Niche; Soil microbiology

Indexed keywords

EID: 85034058140     PISSN: None     EISSN: 23795077     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/mSystems.00162-16     Document Type: Article

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