<p>Community interactions based on
various parameters in defined niches have been studied to understand their
influence on bacterial life. Yet there currently are no models that can depict
how spatial interactions control the complex combinatorics of different
microbial communities. Biodiversity influences the ecosystem properties of
bacterial communities, but the relationship between bacterial biodiversity and
function remains to be understood entirely.
Here, the focus is on developing a simple and effective platform to study
neighborhood interactions between different species of lactic acid bacteria by
controlling two metrics – distance and composition. Using this simple platform,
I explore 1) how spatial and temporal arrangement between different bacteria
affect their interaction in a high throughput manner, 2) how biodiversity can
be manipulated in terms of its starting population, the number of species, and species
identity. </p>
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:purdue.edu/oai:figshare.com:article/13402448 |
| Date | 17 December 2020 |
| Creators | Sainitya Revuru (9862775) |
| Source Sets | Purdue University |
| Detected Language | English |
| Type | Text, Thesis |
| Rights | CC BY 4.0 |
| Relation | https://figshare.com/articles/thesis/Paper_as_a_simple_tool_to_study_bacterial_ecology/13402448 |
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