SteadyCom: Predicting microbial abundances while ensuring community stability
Fig 3
Flux variability analysis of the relative abundance of each pair of mutants.
At a given percentage of the maximum community growth rate, the relative abundance range of the dependent organism was calculated by iteratively fixing the x-axis organism’s relative abundance from 10−3 to 1. (A) Ec2 vs Ec1, (B) Ec3 vs Ec1, (C) Ec3 vs Ec2, (D) Ec4 vs Ec1, (E) Ec4 vs Ec2 and (F) Ec4 vs Ec3. Two patterns were observed: purely competitive (Ec3 vs Ec2, Ec4 vs Ec1) and conditionally mutualistic (the remaining pairs).