image: Some of the diversity of bacterial from a grassland in southern California. Most microorganisms cannot be grown in the lab, but this shows a small slice of the thousands of species coexisting together in natural habitats. This material relates to a paper that appeared in the Nov. 6, 2015, issue of Science, published by AAAS. The paper, by Katharine Coyte at University of Oxford in Oxford, UK, and colleagues was titled, "The ecology of the microbiome: Networks, competition, and stability." view more
Credit: [Credit: K.L. Matulich]