NITMB-supported research explores how environments encourage interdependence in microbial communities

NSF-Simons National Institute for Theory and Mathematics in Biology faculty member Sergei Maslov (Professor and Bliss Faculty Scholar, Bioengineering, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign) and colleagues recently published a new paper highlighting how environments can encourage interdependence in microbial communities. The paper, supported in part by NITMB, explores the critical role of higher-order interactions and resource dependencies in maintaining the diversity and stability of microbial exosystems dominated by auxotrophs.

Learn more about the research in a news story published by the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign.

Read the full research paper at https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2405471225003242?via%3Dihub

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