Suboptimal community growth mediated through metabolite crossfeeding promotes species diversity in the gut microbiota

Michael A. Henson; Poonam Phalak

doi:10.1371/journal.pcbi.1006558

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Suboptimal community growth mediated through metabolite crossfeeding promotes species diversity in the gut microbiota

Michael A. Henson ,

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Software, Supervision, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

* E-mail: mhenson@umass.edu

Affiliations Department of Chemical Engineering, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, Massachusetts, USA, Institute for Applied Life Sciences, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, Massachusetts, USA

http://orcid.org/0000-0003-1969-4906

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Poonam Phalak

Roles Data curation, Investigation, Software, Visualization, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations Department of Chemical Engineering, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, Massachusetts, USA, Institute for Applied Life Sciences, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, Massachusetts, USA
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Suboptimal community growth mediated through metabolite crossfeeding promotes species diversity in the gut microbiota

Michael A. Henson,
Poonam Phalak

Published: October 30, 2018
https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pcbi.1006558

About the Authors

Michael A. Henson

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Software, Supervision, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

* E-mail: mhenson@umass.edu

Affiliations Department of Chemical Engineering, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, Massachusetts, USA, Institute for Applied Life Sciences, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, Massachusetts, USA

http://orcid.org/0000-0003-1969-4906

Poonam Phalak

Roles Data curation, Investigation, Software, Visualization, Writing – review & editing

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

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