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Competitive lottery-based assembly of selected clades in the human gut microbiome
19 Oct 2018
Abstract excerpt
BACKGROUND: While the composition of the gut microbiome has now been well described by several large-scale studies, models that can account for the range of microbiome compositions that have been observed are still lacking. One model that has been well studied in macro communities and that could be useful for understanding microbiome assembly is the competitive lottery model. This model posits that groups of...
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