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Suboptimal community growth mediated through metabolite crossfeeding promotes species diversity in the gut microbiota

The gut microbiota represent a highly complex ecosystem comprised of approximately 1000 species that forms a mutualistic relationship with the human host. A critical attribute of the microbiota is high species diversity, which provides system robustness through overlapping and redundant metabolic ca...

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Autores principales: Henson, Michael A., Phalak, Poonam
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Public Library of Science 2018
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6226200/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/30376571
http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pcbi.1006558