Department of Ecology, Behavior, and Evolution, University of California, San Diego, La Jolla, CA, USA.
Cell. 2024 Jun 6;187(12):2905-2906. doi: 10.1016/j.cell.2024.04.024.
Microbial communities perform many important functions, such as carbon sequestration, decomposition, pathogen resistance, etc., but quantitatively predicting functions of new communities remains a major challenge. In this issue of Cell, Diaz-Colunga et al. report a new simple statistical regularity that enables such predictions.
微生物群落发挥着许多重要功能，如碳固存、分解、抵抗病原体等，但定量预测新群落的功能仍然是一个主要挑战。在本期《细胞》杂志上，迪亚兹-科隆加等人报道了一种新的简单统计规律，使这种预测成为可能。
