Variable habitat conditions drive species covariation in the human microbiota.

Two species with similar resource requirements respond in a characteristic way to variations in their habitat-their abundances rise and fall in concert. We use this idea to learn how bacterial populations in the microbiota respond to habitat conditions that vary from person-to-person across the huma...

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Main Authors: Charles K Fisher, Thierry Mora, Aleksandra M Walczak
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2017-04-01
Series:PLoS Computational Biology
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC5407567?pdf=render