Experimental demonstration that screening can enable the environmental recruitment of a defensive microbiome
Tabitha Innocent, Neil Holmes, Mahmoud Al Bassam, Morten Schiøtt, István Scheuring, Barrie Wilkinson, Matthew I Hutchings, Jacobus J Boomsma, Douglas W Yu
The paper demonstrates that screening theory explains how hosts selectively recruit antibiotic-producing microbes by simulating ant microbiome competition in vitro.
bioRxiv · Jul 24, 2018 · PreprintMicrobiology