Fig. 5: Growth of strains that evolved in monoculture does not predict the dominant species in pairs. | Nature Communications

Fig. 5: Growth of strains that evolved in monoculture does not predict the dominant species in pairs.

From: Community composition of microbial microcosms follows simple assembly rules at evolutionary timescales

Fig. 5

The accuracy of the prediction that the species with the higher growth rate (r)/carrying capacity (K) is more abundant in a pairwise competition at generation ~70 (A) and ~400 (B). Growth rate is measured as the time to a threshold of OD = 0.08 (“Methods”), and thus includes strains’ lag time. An asterisks above bars indicate the probability to get a given level of accuracy by chance (one-sided binomial test, n = 42) ** = <0.001, for bars with no sign the probability is greater than 0.05. P values (from left to right): 0.003, 0.001, 0.32, 0.08, 0.32, 0.67. One species’ growth (H77) was not measured and therefore the two communities that included it were removed from this analysis, and accuracies were evaluated from the data of 42 pairs. Source data are provided as a Source Data file.

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