Synthetic microbial communities

Synthetic microbial communities

Highlights • Microbial interactions and system function are two ways to study communities. • Natural microbial communities are difficult to define and to study. • Synthetic microbial communities are comprehensible systems of reduced complexity. • Synthetic communities keep key features of natural on...

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Veröffentlicht in:Current opinion in microbiology 2014-04, Vol.18 (100), p.72-77
Hauptverfasser: Großkopf, Tobias, Soyer, Orkun S
Format: Artikel
Sprache:eng
Schlagworte:
community structure
microbial communities
Microbial Consortia
Microbial Interactions
microorganisms
Pathology
symbiosis
Synthetic Biology
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Zusammenfassung:Highlights • Microbial interactions and system function are two ways to study communities. • Natural microbial communities are difficult to define and to study. • Synthetic microbial communities are comprehensible systems of reduced complexity. • Synthetic communities keep key features of natural ones and are amenable to modelling. • Synthetic microbial communities are gaining importance in biotechnology.
ISSN:1369-5274
1879-0364
DOI:10.1016/j.mib.2014.02.002