Mortality causes universal changes in microbial community composition

Environmental stress can affect the outcome of ecological competition. Here, the authors use theory and experiments with a synthetic microbial community to show that a tradeoff between growth rate and competitive ability determines which species prevails when the population faces variable mortality...

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Main Authors: Clare I. Abreu, Jonathan Friedman, Vilhelm L. Andersen Woltz, Jeff Gore
Format: article
Language:EN
Published: Nature Portfolio 2019
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Online Access:https://doaj.org/article/f869cf49ad6c40cfaa8b88eb3f414a55
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