Miaoxiao Wang

TL;DR: In this article, an individual-based model was constructed, where an autonomous population that possessed functions to produce three essential public goods, was allowed to randomly lose functions, and these genotypes could then automatically develop to three possible types of interdependent patterns: complete functional division, one-way dependency, and asymmetric functional complementation.

TL;DR: This study found that two bacterial strains isolated from Chinese oil fields, Dietzia sp.

TL;DR: This review highlights recent microbiome engineering strategies for bioremediation, combining top-down and bottom-up approaches to address environmental challenges, such as refractory pollutant degradation and sustaining performance under fluctuating conditions.

TL;DR: Zhang et al. as mentioned in this paper investigated the assembly of the community engaged in metabolic division of labor (MDOL) and derived a simple rule: to maintain coexistence of the MDOL members, the populations responsible for former steps should hold a growth advantage (m) over the private benefit (n) of the population responsible for last step, and the steady-state frequency of the last population is determined by the quotient of n and m.