Our previous work on the role of mutualistic interactions in the maintainance of biodiversity directed our interest towards studying interactions in bacterial communities, where there are many instances of cooperative interactions, and we developed methods to identify possible interactions from metagenomic data.
Pascual-García A, Tamames J, Bastolla U.
Bacteria dialog with Santa Rosalia: Are aggregations of cosmopolitan bacteria mainly explained by habitat filtering or by ecological interactions?
BMC Microbiol. 2014 14:284.
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