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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