Experimental demonstration that screening can enable the environmental recruitment of a defensive microbiome
T. Innocent, N. Holmes, M. Al Bassam, M. Schiott, I. Scheuring, B. Wilkinson, M. I. Hutchings, J. J. Boomsma, D. 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