IDEAS home Printed from https://ideas.repec.org/a/nat/nature/v521y2015i7553d10.1038_nature14485.html
   My bibliography  Save this article

Counteraction of antibiotic production and degradation stabilizes microbial communities

Author

Listed:
  • Eric D. Kelsic

    (Harvard Medical School)

  • Jeffrey Zhao

    (Harvard Medical School)

  • Kalin Vetsigian

    (University of Wisconsin-Madison)

  • Roy Kishony

    (Harvard Medical School
    Technion-Israel Institute of Technology)

Abstract

Mathematical modelling and simulations reveal that including antibiotic degraders in ecological models of microbial species interaction allows the system to robustly move towards an intermixed stable state, more representative of real-world observations.

Suggested Citation

  • Eric D. Kelsic & Jeffrey Zhao & Kalin Vetsigian & Roy Kishony, 2015. "Counteraction of antibiotic production and degradation stabilizes microbial communities," Nature, Nature, vol. 521(7553), pages 516-519, May.
    • Handle: RePEc:nat:nature:v:521:y:2015:i:7553:d:10.1038_nature14485
    DOI: 10.1038/nature14485
    as

    Download full text from publisher

    File URL: https://www.nature.com/articles/nature14485
    File Function: Abstract
    Download Restriction: Access to the full text of the articles in this series is restricted.
    File URL: https://libkey.io/10.1038/nature14485?utm_source=ideas
    LibKey link: if access is restricted and if your library uses this service, LibKey will redirect you to where you can use your library subscription to access this item
    ---><---

    As the access to this document is restricted, you may want to search for a different version of it.

    Citations

    Citations are extracted by the CitEc Project, subscribe to its RSS feed for this item.
    as


    Cited by:

    1. Gerrit Ansmann & Tobias Bollenbach, 2021. "Building clone-consistent ecosystem models," PLOS Computational Biology, Public Library of Science, vol. 17(2), pages 1-25, February.
    2. Zhang, Xiaojun & Li, Baohuan, 2024. "Information sharing promotes bacterial diversity in oligotrophic environment with low-dose X-ray radiation based on modeling and simulation of agent-based model," Ecological Modelling, Elsevier, vol. 488(C).
    3. Eran Even-Tov & Shira Omer Bendori & Julie Valastyan & Xiaobo Ke & Shaul Pollak & Tasneem Bareia & Ishay Ben-Zion & Bonnie L Bassler & Avigdor Eldar, 2016. "Social Evolution Selects for Redundancy in Bacterial Quorum Sensing," PLOS Biology, Public Library of Science, vol. 14(2), pages 1-18, February.
    4. Yang, Xinbin & Xu, Xinming & Hu, Dawei, 2020. "Succession mechanism of microbial community with high species diversity in nutrient-deficient environments with low-dose ionizing radiation," Ecological Modelling, Elsevier, vol. 435(C).
    5. Li Xie & Wenying Shou, 2021. "Steering ecological-evolutionary dynamics to improve artificial selection of microbial communities," Nature Communications, Nature, vol. 12(1), pages 1-15, December.
    6. Zhang, Zeyu & Bearup, Daniel & Guo, Guanming & Zhang, Helin & Liao, Jinbao, 2022. "Competition modes determine ecosystem stability in rock–paper–scissors games," Physica A: Statistical Mechanics and its Applications, Elsevier, vol. 607(C).
    7. Søren Christensen & Wilhelmina H. Gera Hol & Viola Kurm & Mette Vestergård, 2021. "Increased Likelihood of High Nitrous Oxide (N 2 O) Exchange in Soils at Reduced Microbial Diversity," Sustainability, MDPI, vol. 13(4), pages 1-8, February.

    More about this item

    Statistics

    Access and download statistics

    Corrections

    All material on this site has been provided by the respective publishers and authors. You can help correct errors and omissions. When requesting a correction, please mention this item's handle: RePEc:nat:nature:v:521:y:2015:i:7553:d:10.1038_nature14485. See general information about how to correct material in RePEc.

    If you have authored this item and are not yet registered with RePEc, we encourage you to do it here. This allows to link your profile to this item. It also allows you to accept potential citations to this item that we are uncertain about.

    We have no bibliographic references for this item. You can help adding them by using this form .

    If you know of missing items citing this one, you can help us creating those links by adding the relevant references in the same way as above, for each refering item. If you are a registered author of this item, you may also want to check the "citations" tab in your RePEc Author Service profile, as there may be some citations waiting for confirmation.

    For technical questions regarding this item, or to correct its authors, title, abstract, bibliographic or download information, contact: Sonal Shukla or Springer Nature Abstracting and Indexing (email available below). General contact details of provider: http://www.nature.com .

    Please note that corrections may take a couple of weeks to filter through the various RePEc services.

    IDEAS is a RePEc service. RePEc uses bibliographic data supplied by the respective publishers.