Available Energy Fluxes Drive A Transition In The Diversity, Stability, And Functional Structure Of Microbial Communities

[Solrack]

https://journals.plos.org/ploscompbiol/article?id=10.1371/journal.pcbi.1006793

 

Hello to everyone, here is a scientific paper I would like to discuss. Is about simulated bacterial communities with one source of energy and certain variables, and how they affect them. The results show that there are two regimes depending on the leakage and supplied energy. The two regimes differ in some ways with the abundant one sharing some characteristics with actual biological systems. I think these is a great step in the right direction for the understanding of the dynamics of microbial ecosystems. But nevertheless, I have some problems with the experiment, like deciding only having one resource at the starting point, instead of multiple resources and even tough it wasn't the aim of the experiment I would like to see mutation rates version. Good paper overall.

 

What are your opinions about it?

[Vmedvil2]

 

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Edited April 13, 2019 by OceanBreeze
removed all the links

[OceanBreeze]

Already on it. The nerve of that spammer to try and spam right under my nose. Banned.

[Moronium]

https://journals.plos.org/ploscompbiol/article?id=10.1371/journal.pcbi.1006793

 

Hello to everyone, here is a scientific paper I would like to discuss. 

 

What are your opinions about it?

 

I'm sorry, but I don't have the credentials to intelligently discuss a paper like this.

 

That said, I do have a general comment to make about it.  I instinctively dislike the mechanistic, reductionistic premises which it appear to presuppose.

 

 

Looking at the abstract suggests that an analysis in terms of "thermodynamics," "chemical environment," "available energy fluxes" and the like.  That's all kinda interesting, I suppose, but wondering how such factors could explain all species of bacteria being "bilingual" and possessing both an intra and inter-species forms of communication.  That is much more interesting to me.

Edited April 14, 2019 by Moronium