Stability in ecological microcosm
In attempt to clarify the significance of interspecific interactions in evolutionary ecology, the growth characteristics of bacterial populations sampled from ecological microcosms which act as fairly realistic models of natural ecosystems were investigated, with a particular emphasis on the ability...
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author | Kurihara, Yasushi |
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description | In attempt to clarify the significance of interspecific interactions in evolutionary ecology, the growth characteristics of bacterial populations sampled from ecological microcosms which act as fairly realistic models of natural ecosystems were investigated, with a particular emphasis on the ability of a system to remain reasonably stable in the genetic composition in spite of the occurrences of various mutants from native strains. Newly-emerged mutants in a community are inhibited in their multiplication, or excluded by a network of many elementary interactions between the different species of the populations, thus preserving the traits of the parental strains in a community. The interactions in the form of a network may be viewed as evidence for a maintenance of stability in a community. |
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spelling | pubmed-81476672021-05-28 Stability in ecological microcosm Kurihara, Yasushi Proc Jpn Acad Ser B Phys Biol Sci Review In attempt to clarify the significance of interspecific interactions in evolutionary ecology, the growth characteristics of bacterial populations sampled from ecological microcosms which act as fairly realistic models of natural ecosystems were investigated, with a particular emphasis on the ability of a system to remain reasonably stable in the genetic composition in spite of the occurrences of various mutants from native strains. Newly-emerged mutants in a community are inhibited in their multiplication, or excluded by a network of many elementary interactions between the different species of the populations, thus preserving the traits of the parental strains in a community. The interactions in the form of a network may be viewed as evidence for a maintenance of stability in a community. The Japan Academy 2004-07 2004-07-01 /pmc/articles/PMC8147667/ Text en © 2004 The Japan Academy https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. |
spellingShingle | Review Kurihara, Yasushi Stability in ecological microcosm |
title | Stability in ecological microcosm |
title_full | Stability in ecological microcosm |
title_fullStr | Stability in ecological microcosm |
title_full_unstemmed | Stability in ecological microcosm |
title_short | Stability in ecological microcosm |
title_sort | stability in ecological microcosm |
topic | Review |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8147667/ |
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