From Kevin Foster and collaborators

"The order and identity of incoming symbionts is critical for health, but what determines the success of the assembly process remains poorly understood. Here we develop ecological theory to identify factors important for microbial community assembly. Our method maps out all feasible pathways for the assembly of a given microbiome—with analogies to the mutational maps underlying fitness landscapes in evolutionary biology."

#Microbiology #MucosalImmunology

https://journals.plos.org/plosbiology/article?id=10.1371/journal.pbio.3001116