Metabolic interactions affect the biomass of synthetic bacterial biofilm communities.

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Co-occurrence network analysis is an effective tool for predicting complex networks of microbial interactions in the natural environment. Using isolates from a rhizosphere, we constructed multi-species biofilm communities and investigated co-occurrence patterns between microbial species in genome-scale metabolic models and in vitro experiments. According to our results, metabolic exchanges and resource competition may partially explain the co-occurrence network analysis results found in synthetic bacterial biofilm communities.

SUBMITTER: Sun X 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10734490 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature