Nature Communications (Dec 2017)

Mapping the ecological networks of microbial communities

  • Yandong Xiao,
  • Marco Tulio Angulo,
  • Jonathan Friedman,
  • Matthew K. Waldor,
  • Scott T. Weiss,
  • Yang-Yu Liu

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-017-02090-2
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 8, no. 1
pp. 1 – 12

Abstract

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Understanding ecological interactions in microbial communities is limited by lack of informative longitudinal abundance data necessary for reliable inference. Here, Xiao et al. develop a method to infer the interactions between microbes based on their abundances in steady-state samples.