Nature Communications (Apr 2021)

Non-additive microbial community responses to environmental complexity

  • Alan R. Pacheco,
  • Melisa L. Osborne,
  • Daniel Segrè

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-021-22426-3
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 12, no. 1
pp. 1 – 11

Abstract

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How microbial community properties change under increasingly complex combinations of resources remains unclear. Here, the authors studied hundreds of synthetic consortia to identify the factors that govern how growth and taxonomic diversity scale with environmental complexity.