Assembly of functional microbial ecosystems: from molecular circuits to communities

S Wu, Y Zhou, L Dai, A Yang… - FEMS Microbiology …, 2024 - academic.oup.com
Microbes compete and cooperate with each other via a variety of chemicals and circuits.
Recently, to decipher, simulate, or reconstruct microbial communities, many researches …

The underground network: facilitation in soil bacteria

J Jorna, BJ Adams, ZT Aanderud, PB Frandsen… - Oikos, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
Our understanding of the fundamental role that soil bacteria play in the structure and
functioning of Earth's ecosystems is ever expanding, but insight into the nature of …

Toward a fundamental theory of taxon transitions in microbial communities

CB Ogbunugafor, S Yitbarek - Proceedings of the National …, 2024 - National Acad Sciences
Technological breakthroughs have fostered an appreciation for the microbiome and
revolutionized our understanding of many parts of the tree of life. These discoveries have …

Integrative analysis of yeast colony growth

T Gaizer, J Juhász, B Pillér, H Szakadáti… - Communications …, 2024 - nature.com
Yeast colonies are routinely grown on agar plates in everyday experimental settings to
understand basic molecular processes, produce novel drugs, improve health, and so on …

Niche formation and metabolic interactions result in stable diversity in a spatially structured cyanobacterial community

SJN Duxbury, S Raguideau, K Cremin, J Rosko… - bioRxiv, 2022 - biorxiv.org
Understanding how microbial communities maintain stable compositional diversity is key for
predicting community function. Studies from species pairwise interactions and synthetic …

[HTML][HTML] Biophysical metabolic modeling of complex bacterial colony morphology

I Dukovski, L Golden, J Zhang, M Osborne, D Segrè… - …, 2024 - pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
Microbial colony growth is shaped by the physics of biomass propagation and nutrient
diffusion, and by the metabolic reactions that organisms activate as a function of the …

Deconstructing taxa x taxa x environment interactions in the microbiota: A theoretical examination

S Yitbarek, J Guittar, SA Knutie, CB Ogbunugafor - Iscience, 2023 - cell.com
A major objective of microbial ecology is to identify how the composition of microbial taxa
shapes host phenotypes. However, most studies focus on pairwise interactions and ignore …