Community structure follows simple assembly rules in microbial microcosms
Community structure follows simple assembly rules in microbial microcosms is a scholarly work, published in 2017 in ''Nature Ecology & Evolution''. The main subjects of the publication include community structure, biology, RNA sequencing, human gut flora, Marine microorganism, microcosm, Microcosm, Microbial population biology, ecological community, biological competition, simple, predictive power, ecology, and Pairwise comparison. The authors propose a simple, qualitative assembly rule that predicts community structure from the outcomes of competitions between small sets of species, and experimentally assess its predictive power using synthetic microbial communities composed of up to eight soil bacterial species.