ArticlePloS one2013
Stability of multispecies bacterial communities: signaling networks may stabilize microbiomes.
Article in PloS one, 2013. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. An erratum has been issued. Cited by 8 papers.
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- Toward Engineering Biosystems With Emergent Collective Functions.Frontiers in bioengineering and biotechnology · 2020Article
- Drivers of human gut microbial community assembly: coadaptation, determinism and stochasticity.The ISME journal · 2019Article
- Differential signal sensitivities can contribute to the stability of multispecies bacterial communities.Biology direct · 2017Article
- Interactive models of communication at the nanoscale using nanoparticles that talk to one another.Nature communications · 2017Article
- The olive knot disease as a model to study the role of interspecies bacterial communities in plant disease.Frontiers in plant science · 2015Review
- Modeling bacterial quorum sensing in open and closed environments: potential discrepancies between agar plate and culture flask experiments.Journal of molecular modeling · 2014Article
- Emergence of collective territorial defense in bacterial communities: horizontal gene transfer can stabilize microbiomes.PloS one · 2014Article
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Abstract
Multispecies bacterial communities can be remarkably stable and resilient even though they consist of cells and species that compete for environmental resources. In silico models suggest that common signals released into the environment may help selected bacterial species cluster at common locations and that sharing of public goods (i.e. molecules produced and released for mutual benefit) can stabilize this coexistence. In contrast, unilateral eavesdropping on signals produced by a potentially invading species may protect a community by keeping invaders away from limited resources. Shared bacterial signals, such as those found in quorum sensing systems, may thus play a key role in fine tuning competition and cooperation within multi-bacterial communities. We suggest that in addition to metabolic complementarity, signaling dynamics may be important in further understanding complex bacterial communities such as the human, animal as well as plant microbiomes.
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