Intra- and inter-species interactions in microbial communities

• Main Author: Luis Raul Comolli (auth)
• Other Authors: Manfred Auer (auth), Birgit Luef (auth)
• Format: Electronic Book Chapter
• Language: English
• Published: Frontiers Media SA 2015
• Series: Frontiers Research Topics
• Subjects: Microbiology (non-medical); uncultivated biofilms; Archaea; inter-species interactions; microbial communities; microbial networks
• Online Access: DOAB: download the publication; DOAB: description of the publication

Recent developments in various "OMICs" fields have revolutionized our understanding of the vast diversity and ubiquity of microbes in the biosphere. However, most of the current paradigms of microbial cell biology, and our view of how microbes live and what they are capable of, are derived...