title: When communities collide.
abstract: A new model demonstrates how microbial communities can survive encounters with other communities as a cohesive group, even in the complete absence of cooperation.
authors.affiliation: Department of Physics, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, United States.
authors.forename: Jason
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Merritt
authors.affiliation: Department of Physics, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, United States.
authors.forename: Seppe
authors.identifier: 0000-0002-4130-6845
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Kuehn
mesh_terms: D059013:Microbial Consortia
keywords: computational biology; consortia; cooperation; ecology; microbial ecology; niche construction; none; resource competition; systems biology