Metabolic overlap in environmentally diverse microbial communities
E. R. Hester, M. S. M. Jetten, C. U. Welte, S. Lücker
The paper introduces a metric to measure metabolic overlap in microbial communities across ecosystems, finding higher overlap in extreme and aquatic environments and lower in host-associated and engineered environments.
bioRxiv · May 29, 2019Microbiology