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SUBMITTER: Datta MS
PROVIDER: S-EPMC4915023 | biostudies-literature | 2016 Jun
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Datta Manoshi S MS Sliwerska Elzbieta E Gore Jeff J Polz Martin F MF Cordero Otto X OX
Nature communications 20160617
In the ocean, organic particles harbour diverse bacterial communities, which collectively digest and recycle essential nutrients. Traits like motility and exo-enzyme production allow individual taxa to colonize and exploit particle resources, but it remains unclear how community dynamics emerge from these individual traits. Here we track the taxon and trait dynamics of bacteria attached to model marine particles and demonstrate that particle-attached communities undergo rapid, reproducible succe ...[more]