Vinculación de interacciones microbianas complejas y disbiosis a través de un modelo desordenado de Lotka-Volterra

Jacopo Pasqualini1, Amos Maritan1, Andrea Rinaldo2,3

  • 1Dipartimento di Fisica "G. Galilei" e INFN sezione di Padova, Università di Padova, Padua, Italy.

eLife
|January 12, 2026
PubMed
Resumen

Los microbiomas sanos exhiben estructuras estables y reproducibles impulsadas por fluctuaciones neutrales, a diferencia de los enfermos, que son variables y menos estables. La teoría de sistemas desordenados puede caracterizar estas diferencias, vinculando las interacciones con la estabilidad y la función del microbioma.

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