Publications by authors named "Hidetaka Hirai"
Front Microbiol
November 2015
Article Synopsis
- This study focused on understanding how different factors influence bacterial communities by creating synthetic microbial ecosystems (SMEs) that simulate natural and engineered environments.
- Researchers constructed six SMEs using various strains of phenol-degrading bacteria and measured their growth dynamics to predict which strain would dominate the ecosystem.
- The study compared two indices, the J parameter and a newly proposed "interspecies interaction" index, finding that while both indices predicted dominance correctly in most cases, interspecies interactions played a significant role in shaping the community dynamics.
