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Phage Phenomics: Physiological Approaches to Characterize Novel Viral Proteins
Published on: June 11, 2015
Unveiling abundance-dependent metabolic phenotypes of microbial communities
Natalia E Jiménez1,2, Vicente Acuña1,2, María Paz Cortés1
1Center for Mathematical Modeling, University of Chile , Santiago, Chile.
Importance:
In nature, organisms live in communities and not as isolated species, and their interactions provide a source of resilience to environmental disturbances. Despite their importance in ecology, human health, and industry, understanding how organisms interact in different environments remains an open question. In this work, we provide a novel approach that, only using genomic information, studies the metabolic phenotype exhibited by communities, where the exploration of suboptimal growth flux distributions and the composition of a community allows to unveil its capacity to respond to environmental changes, shedding light of the degrees of metabolic plasticity inherent to the community.
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