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It’s the Economy, Stupid: Applying (Micro)economic Principles to Microbiome Science
A key challenge in microbiome science is the scale mismatch problem, which arises when the scale at which microbial communities are sampled, interrogated, and averaged is different from the scale at which individual microorganisms within those communities interact with each other and with their envi...
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American Society for Microbiology
2022
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8751381/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/35014875 http://dx.doi.org/10.1128/msystems.01033-21 |
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author | Kashtan, Nadav Bushong, Benjamin Leveau, Johan H. J. |
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description | A key challenge in microbiome science is the scale mismatch problem, which arises when the scale at which microbial communities are sampled, interrogated, and averaged is different from the scale at which individual microorganisms within those communities interact with each other and with their environment. Profiling the microbial communities in a teaspoon of soil, from a scoop of fecal matter, or along a plant leaf surface represents a scale mismatch of multiple orders of magnitude, which may limit our ability to interpret or predict species interactions and community assembly within such samples. In this Perspective, we explore how economists, who are historically and topically split along the lines of micro- and macroeconomics, deal with the scale mismatch problem, and how taking clues from (micro)economists could benefit the field of microbiomics. |
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spelling | pubmed-87513812022-01-24 It’s the Economy, Stupid: Applying (Micro)economic Principles to Microbiome Science Kashtan, Nadav Bushong, Benjamin Leveau, Johan H. J. mSystems Perspective A key challenge in microbiome science is the scale mismatch problem, which arises when the scale at which microbial communities are sampled, interrogated, and averaged is different from the scale at which individual microorganisms within those communities interact with each other and with their environment. Profiling the microbial communities in a teaspoon of soil, from a scoop of fecal matter, or along a plant leaf surface represents a scale mismatch of multiple orders of magnitude, which may limit our ability to interpret or predict species interactions and community assembly within such samples. In this Perspective, we explore how economists, who are historically and topically split along the lines of micro- and macroeconomics, deal with the scale mismatch problem, and how taking clues from (micro)economists could benefit the field of microbiomics. American Society for Microbiology 2022-01-11 /pmc/articles/PMC8751381/ /pubmed/35014875 http://dx.doi.org/10.1128/msystems.01033-21 Text en Copyright © 2022 Kashtan et al. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International license (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) . |
spellingShingle | Perspective Kashtan, Nadav Bushong, Benjamin Leveau, Johan H. J. It’s the Economy, Stupid: Applying (Micro)economic Principles to Microbiome Science |
title | It’s the Economy, Stupid: Applying (Micro)economic Principles to Microbiome Science |
title_full | It’s the Economy, Stupid: Applying (Micro)economic Principles to Microbiome Science |
title_fullStr | It’s the Economy, Stupid: Applying (Micro)economic Principles to Microbiome Science |
title_full_unstemmed | It’s the Economy, Stupid: Applying (Micro)economic Principles to Microbiome Science |
title_short | It’s the Economy, Stupid: Applying (Micro)economic Principles to Microbiome Science |
title_sort | it’s the economy, stupid: applying (micro)economic principles to microbiome science |
topic | Perspective |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8751381/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/35014875 http://dx.doi.org/10.1128/msystems.01033-21 |
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