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Interactions in the microbiome: communities of organisms and communities of genes

Eva Boon, Conor J. Meehan, Chris Whidden, Dennis H.-J. Wong, Morgan G.I. Langille and Robert G. Beiko

in FEMS Microbiology Reviews

Published on behalf of Federation of European Microbiological Societies

Volume 38, issue 1, pages 90-118
Published in print January 2014 |
Published online January 2014 | e-ISSN: 1574-6976 | DOI: https://dx.doi.org/10.1111/1574-6976.12035

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Progress in our understanding of microbial communities requires clearly articulated and applied definitions of communities and the entities that constitute them, as well as new approaches that directly address the mechanisms of microbial interactions.

Keywords: microbial communities; metagenomics; genome evolution; trait-based ecology; Black Queen Hypothesis; Public Goods Hypothesis

Journal Article.  20180 words.  Illustrated.

Subjects: Medical Microbiology and Virology ; Biotechnology ; Genetics and Genomics ; Microbiology ; Molecular and Cell Biology

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