Microbial Species Coexistence Depends on the Host Environment

ABSTRACT Organisms and their resident microbial communities form a complex and mostly stable ecosystem. It is known that the specific composition and abundance of certain bacterial species affect host health and fitness, but the processes that lead to these microbial patterns are unknown. We investi...

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Main Authors: Peter Deines, Katrin Hammerschmidt, Thomas C. G. Bosch
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: American Society for Microbiology 2020-08-01
Series:mBio
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Online Access:https://journals.asm.org/doi/10.1128/mBio.00807-20