Costless metabolic secretions as drivers of interspecies interactions in microbial ecosystems

Nature Communications

Volumn 10, Issue 1, 2019, Pages

  Pacheco, Alan R ^a   Moel, Mauricio ^b   Segrè, Daniel ^a,b  

^a Boston University   (United States)

^b Boston University   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BODILY SECRETIONS; DRIVER; FEEDING; GENOME; HUMAN; MICROBE-MICROBE INTERACTION; MICROBIAL CONSORTIUM; ORGANISM COMMUNITY; SIMULATION; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; COMPUTER SIMULATION; MICROFLORA; ORGANISMAL INTERACTION; SPECIES DIFFERENCE; SYMBIOSIS;

COMPUTER SIMULATION; MICROBIAL CONSORTIA; MICROBIAL INTERACTIONS; MICROBIOTA; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; SPECIES SPECIFICITY; SYMBIOSIS;

EID: 85059798215     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20411723     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/s41467-018-07946-9     Document Type: Article

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