Perspective: Simple State Communities to Study Microbial Interactions: Examples and Future Directions.

ABSTRACT: Microbial interactions in natural environments are intricately complex. High numbers and rich diversity of microorganisms, along with compositional heterogeneities complicate the cause. It is essential to simplify these complex communities to understand the microbial interactions. We proposed a concept of "simple state community," which represents a subset of microbes and/or microbial functions of the original population that is necessary to build a stable community. By combining microbial culturing and high-throughput sequencing, we can better understand microbe-microbe and microbe-host interactions. To support our proposed model, we used carbon-based and nitrogen-based media to capture the simple state communities. We used 16S rRNA amplicon sequencing and assigned taxonomic identi

SUBMITTER: Sarkar S 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8828649 | biostudies-literature | 2022

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature