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The large-scale organization of the bacterial network of ecological co-occurrence interactions

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Freilich, Shiri, Kreimer, Anat, Meilijson, Isacc, Gophna, Uri, Sharan, Roded, Ruppin, Eytan·2010·Nucleic Acids Research

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In their natural environments, microorganisms form complex systems of interactions. Understating the structure and organization of bacterial communities is likely to have broad medical and ecological consequences, yet a comprehensive description of the network of environmental interactions is currently lacking. Here, we mine co-occurrences in the scientific literature to construct such a network and demonstrate an expected pattern of association between the species' lifestyle and the recorded number of co-occurring partners. We further focus on the well-annotated gut community and show that most co-occurrence interactions of typical gut bacteria occur within this community. The network is then clustered into species-groups that significantly correspond with natural occurring communities. The relationships between resource competition, metabolic yield and growth rate within the clusters correspond with the r/K selection theory. Overall, these results support the constructed clusters as a first approximation of a bacterial ecosystem model. This comprehensive collection of predicted communities forms a new data resource for further systematic characterization of the ecological design principals shaping communities. Here, we demonstrate its utility for predicting cooperation and inhibition within communities.

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Authors
Freilich, S., Kreimer, A., Meilijson, I., Gophna, U., Sharan, R., & Ruppin, E.
Venue
Nucleic Acids Research
Published
2010-02-27
Volume
38
Issue
12
Pages
3857-3868
ISSN
  • 0305-1048 (ISSN-L)
  • 1362-4962
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312
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6
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4.25
Type
journal article
Language
en
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Freilich, S., Kreimer, A., Meilijson, I., Gophna, U., Sharan, R., & Ruppin, E. (2010). The large-scale organization of the bacterial network of ecological co-occurrence interactions. Nucleic Acids Research. https://doi.org/10.1093/nar/gkq118

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