Nature

Power laws in species’ biotic interaction networks can be inferred from co-occurrence data

Whether interactions between species can be inferred from species co-occurrence patterns is a contentious topic in ecology 1,2,3,4. Indeed, the spatial distribution of species is influenced by their ...
Nature

Topological distortion and reorganized modular structure of gut microbial co-occurrence networks in inflammatory bowel disease

The gut microbiome plays a key role in human health and alterations of the normal gut flora are associated with a variety of distinct disease states. Yet, the natural dependencies between microbes in ...