A simple rule for predicting function of microbial communities.
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- Also identified by DOI 10.1016/j.cell.2024.04.024 and PMC identifier 11580695.
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Abstract
Microbial communities perform many important functions, such as carbon sequestration, decomposition, pathogen resistance, etc., but quantitatively predicting functions of new communities remains a major challenge. In this issue of Cell, Diaz-Colunga et al. report a new simple statistical regularity that enables such predictions.
Medical subject headings
- Microbiota
- Environmental Microbiology