Steering ecological-evolutionary dynamics to improve artificial selection of microbial communities

Li Xie; Wenying Shou

doi:10.1038/s41467-021-26647-4

Nature Communications (Nov 2021)

Steering ecological-evolutionary dynamics to improve artificial selection of microbial communities

Li Xie,
Wenying Shou

Affiliations

Li Xie: Basic Sciences Division, Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center
Wenying Shou: Centre for Life’s Origins and Evolution, Department of Genetics, Evolution and Environment, University College London

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-021-26647-4
Journal volume & issue: Vol. 12, no. 1
pp. 1 – 15

Abstract

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Effective artificial selection of microbial communities has proven challenging. In this simulation study, the authors investigate how to improve selection efficacy by increasing community function heritability through experimentally implementable perturbation strategies.

Published in Nature Communications

ISSN: 2041-1723 (Online)
Publisher: Nature Portfolio
Country of publisher: United Kingdom
LCC subjects: Science
Website: https://www.nature.com/ncomms/

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