Dispersal homogenizes communities via immigration even at low rates in a simplified synthetic bacterial metacommunity
Fodelianakis et al. examine the role of immigration and selection as the means of community homogenisation in a bacterial metacommunity. They confirmed the role of immigration in homogenisation, even when immigration was four times slower than growth.
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| Format: | Article |
| Language: | English |
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Nature Portfolio
2019-03-01
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| Series: | Nature Communications |
| Online Access: | https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-019-09306-7 |