Context-Dependent Competition in a Model Gut Bacterial Community

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Context-Dependent Competition in a Model Gut Bacterial Community

This report showed that context-dependent competition may potentially influence which bacteria can successfully establish and persist in the gastrointestinal system.

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Context-dependent competition may be especially important in the GI-system since it is subject to a pulse-like nutrient regime where key resources alternate between high and low concentration.

Link to Publication: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/23922635

 

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de Muinck EJ, et al. Context-Dependent Competition in a Model Gut Bacterial Community. PLoS ONE 2013;8(6): e67210. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0067210.
Copyright: © 2013 de Muinck et al.