Anatomy promotes neutral coexistence of strains in the human skin microbiome
A. Conwill, A. C. Kuan, R. Damerla, A. J. Poret, J. S. Baker, A. D. Tripp, E. J. Alm, T. D. Lieberman
The paper investigates how host anatomy influences strain coexistence in the human skin microbiome, finding that pores limit competition by maintaining single-strain dominance.
bioRxiv · May 12, 2021Microbiology