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Synthetic soil crusts against green-desert transitions: a spatial model [PDF]

Royal Society Open Science, 2020
Semiarid ecosystems are threatened by global warming due to longer dehydration times and increasing soil degradation. Mounting evidence indicates that, given the current trends, drylands are likely to expand and possibly experience catastrophic shifts ...
Blai Vidiella, Josep Sardanyés, Ricard V. Solé   +2 more
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Environment Constrains Fitness Advantages of Division of Labor in Microbial Consortia Engineered for Metabolite Push or Pull Interactions

mSystems, 2022
Fitness benefits from division of labor are well documented in microbial consortia, but the dependency of the benefits on environmental context is poorly understood.
Ashley E. Beck, Kathryn Pintar, Diana Schepens, Ashley Schrammeck, Timothy Johnson, Alissa Bleem, Martina Du, William R. Harcombe, Hans C. Bernstein, Jeffrey J. Heys, Tomas Gedeon, Ross P. Carlson   +11 more
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Bridging the Holistic-Reductionist Divide in Microbial Ecology

mSystems, 2019
Microbial communities are inherently complex systems. To address this complexity, microbial ecologists are developing new, more elaborate laboratory models at an ever-increasing pace.
Robin Tecon, Sara Mitri, Davide Ciccarese, Dani Or, Jan Roelof van der Meer, David R. Johnson   +5 more
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Population dynamics of synthetic terraformation motifs [PDF]

Royal Society Open Science, 2018
Ecosystems are complex systems, currently experiencing several threats associated with global warming, intensive exploitation and human-driven habitat degradation.
Ricard V. Solé, Raúl Montañez, Salva Duran-Nebreda, Daniel Rodriguez-Amor, Blai Vidiella, Josep Sardanyés   +5 more
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Enforced Mutualism Leads to Improved Cooperative Behavior between Saccharomyces cerevisiae and Lactobacillus plantarum

Microorganisms, 2020
Saccharomyces cerevisiae and Lactobacillus plantarum are responsible for alcoholic and malolactic fermentation, respectively. Successful completion of both fermentations is essential for many styles of wine, and an understanding of how these species ...
S. Christine du Toit, Debra Rossouw, Maret du Toit, Florian F. Bauer   +3 more
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Competitive interactions between culturable bacteria are highly non-additive

eLife, 2023
Microorganisms are found in diverse communities whose structure and function are determined by interspecific interactions. Just as single species seldom exist in isolation, communities as a whole are also constantly challenged and affected by external ...
Amichai Baichman-Kass, Tingting Song, Jonathan Friedman   +2 more
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Revealing the novel complexity of plant long non-coding RNA by strand-specific and whole transcriptome sequencing for evolutionarily representative plant species

BMC Genomics, 2022
Background Previous studies on plant long noncoding RNAs (lncRNAs) lacked consistency and suffered from many factors like heterogeneous data sources and experimental protocols, different plant tissues, inconsistent bioinformatics pipelines, etc.
Yan Zhu, Longxian Chen, Xiangna Hong, Han Shi, Xuan Li   +4 more
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Cross-Feeding of a Toxic Metabolite in a Synthetic Lignocellulose-Degrading Microbial Community

Microorganisms, 2021
The recalcitrance of complex organic polymers such as lignocellulose is one of the major obstacles to sustainable energy production from plant biomass, and the generation of toxic intermediates can negatively impact the efficiency of microbial ...
Jessica A. Lee, Alyssa C. Baugh, Nicholas J. Shevalier, Brandi Strand, Sergey Stolyar, Christopher J. Marx   +5 more
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Synthetic microbial ecosystems : an exciting tool to understand and apply microbial communities [PDF]

, 2013
Many microbial ecologists have described the composition of microbial communities in a plenitude of environments, which has greatly improved our basic understanding of microorganisms and ecosystems.
Boon, Nico, De Roy, Karen, Marzorati, Massimo, Van de Wiele, Tom, Van den Abbeele, Pieter   +4 more
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Harbouring public good mutants within a pathogen population can increase both fitness and virulence

eLife, 2016
Existing theory, empirical, clinical and field research all predict that reducing the virulence of individuals within a pathogen population will reduce the overall virulence, rendering disease less severe.
Richard J Lindsay, Michael J Kershaw, Bogna J Pawlowska, Nicholas J Talbot, Ivana Gudelj   +4 more
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