BSocial: Deciphering Social Behaviors within Mixed Microbial Populations.

ABSTRACT: Ecosystem functionality depends on interactions among populations, of the same or different taxa, and these are not just the sum of pairwise interactions. Thus, know-how of the social interactions occurring in mixed-populations are of high interest, however they are commonly unknown due to the limitations posed in tagging each population. The limitations include costs/time in tediously fluorescent tagging, and the number of different fluorescent tags. Tag-free strategies exist, such as high-throughput sequencing, but ultimately both strategies require the use of expensive machinery. Our work appoints social behaviors on individual strains in mixed-populations, offering a web-tool (BSocial http://m4m.ugr.es/BSocial.html) for analyzing the community framework. Our quick and cheap appr

SUBMITTER: Purswani J 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5442188 | biostudies-literature | 2017

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature