Competition for fluctuating resources reproduces statistics of species abundance over time across wide-ranging microbiotas

Abstract excerpt

Across diverse microbiotas, species abundances vary in time with distinctive statistical behaviors that appear to generalize across hosts, but the origins and implications of these patterns remain unclear. Here, we show that many of these patterns can be quantitatively recapitulated by a simple class of resource-competition models, in which the metabolic capabilities of different species are randomly drawn from a...

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• Clostridium difficile and Clostridium perfringens research
• Diet and metabolism studies
• Gut microbiota and health
• Microbial Metabolic Engineering and Bioproduction
• Probiotics and Fermented Foods

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Literature Corpus work

867bfd8b-5553-5f58-b126-c09f5da58eb6

DOI

10.1101/2021.05.13.444061