Microbial diversity and ecological complexity emerging from environmental variation and horizontal gene transfer in a simple mathematical model.
Sanasar G BabajanyanSofya K GarushyantsYuri I WolfEugene V KooninPublished in: BMC biology (2024)
The results of this modeling study show that basic phenomena that are universal in microbial communities, namely, environmental variation and HGT, provide for stabilization and persistence of microbial diversity, and emergence of ecological complexity.